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1 package org.apache.lucene.index;
2
3 /**
4  * Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation
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18
19 import java.io.IOException JavaDoc;
20
21 /**
22  * TermPositions provides an interface for enumerating the <document,
23  * frequency, &lt;position&gt;* &gt; tuples for a term. <p> The document and
24  * frequency are the same as for a TermDocs. The positions portion lists the ordinal
25  * positions of each occurrence of a term in a document.
26  *
27  * @see IndexReader#termPositions()
28  */

29
30 public interface TermPositions
31     extends TermDocs
32 {
33     /** Returns next position in the current document. It is an error to call
34     this more than {@link #freq()} times
35     without calling {@link #next()}<p> This is
36     invalid until {@link #next()} is called for
37     the first time.
38     */

39     int nextPosition() throws IOException JavaDoc;
40 }
41
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