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using System;

namespace Lucene.Net.Index
{
	
	/// <summary> TermPositions provides an interface for enumerating the &lt;document,
	/// frequency, &lt;position&gt;* &gt; tuples for a term.  <p> The document and
	/// frequency are the same as for a TermDocs.  The positions portion lists the ordinal
	/// positions of each occurrence of a term in a document.
	/// 
	/// </summary>
	/// <seealso cref="IndexReader#TermPositions()">
	/// </seealso>
	
	public interface TermPositions : TermDocs
	{
		/// <summary>Returns next position in the current document.  It is an error to call
		/// this more than {@link #Freq()} times
		/// without calling {@link #next()}<p> This is
		/// invalid until {@link #next()} is called for
		/// the first time.
		/// </summary>
		int NextPosition();
		
		/// <summary> Returns the length of the payload at the current term position.
		/// This is invalid until {@link #NextPosition()} is called for
		/// the first time.<br>
		/// </summary>
		/// <returns> length of the current payload in number of bytes
		/// </returns>
		int GetPayloadLength();
		
		/// <summary> Returns the payload data at the current term position.
		/// This is invalid until {@link #NextPosition()} is called for
		/// the first time.
		/// This method must not be called more than once after each call
		/// of {@link #NextPosition()}. However, payloads are loaded lazily,
		/// so if the payload data for the current position is not needed,
		/// this method may not be called at all for performance reasons.<br>
		/// 
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="data">the array into which the data of this payload is to be
		/// stored, if it is big enough; otherwise, a new byte[] array
		/// is allocated for this purpose. 
		/// </param>
		/// <param name="offset">the offset in the array into which the data of this payload
		/// is to be stored.
		/// </param>
		/// <returns> a byte[] array containing the data of this payload
		/// </returns>
		/// <throws>  IOException </throws>
		byte[] GetPayload(byte[] data, int offset);
		
		/// <summary> Checks if a payload can be loaded at this position.
		/// <p>
		/// Payloads can only be loaded once per call to 
		/// {@link #NextPosition()}.
		/// 
		/// </summary>
		/// <returns> true if there is a payload available at this position that can be loaded
		/// </returns>
		bool IsPayloadAvailable();
	}
}