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package org.apache.lucene.codecs;
import java.io.Closeable;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.lucene.index.PointValues;
import org.apache.lucene.util.Accountable;
/** Abstract API to visit point values.
*
* @lucene.experimental
*/
public abstract class PointsReader implements Closeable, Accountable {
/** Sole constructor. (For invocation by subclass constructors, typically implicit.) */
protected PointsReader() {}
/**
* Checks consistency of this reader.
* <p>
* Note that this may be costly in terms of I/O, e.g.
* may involve computing a checksum value against large data files.
* @lucene.internal
*/
public abstract void checkIntegrity() throws IOException;
/** Return {@link PointValues} for the given {@code field}. */
public abstract PointValues getValues(String field) throws IOException;
/**
* Returns an instance optimized for merging.
* <p>
* The default implementation returns {@code this} */
public PointsReader getMergeInstance() throws IOException {
return this;
}
}