package org.apache.lucene.codecs;
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import java.io.Closeable;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.lucene.index.DocValues;

/**
 * Abstract API that provides access to one or more per-document storage
 * features. The concrete implementations provide access to the underlying
 * storage on a per-document basis corresponding to their actual
 * {@link PerDocConsumer} counterpart.
 * <p>
 * The {@link PerDocProducer} API is accessible through the
 * {@link PostingsFormat} - API providing per field consumers and producers for inverted
 * data (terms, postings) as well as per-document data.
 * 
 * @lucene.experimental
 */
public abstract class PerDocProducer implements Closeable {
  /**
   * Returns {@link DocValues} for the current field.
   * 
   * @param field
   *          the field name
   * @return the {@link DocValues} for this field or <code>null</code> if not
   *         applicable.
   * @throws IOException
   */
  public abstract DocValues docValues(String field) throws IOException;

  public static final PerDocProducer[] EMPTY_ARRAY = new PerDocProducer[0];
}

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