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using System;

namespace Lucene.Net.Index
{
	
	/// <summary>Abstract API that consumes terms, doc, freq, prox and
	/// payloads postings.  Concrete implementations of this
	/// actually do "something" with the postings (write it into
	/// the index in a specific format).
	/// 
	/// NOTE: this API is experimental and will likely change
	/// </summary>
	abstract class FormatPostingsFieldsConsumer
	{
		
		/// <summary>Add a new field </summary>
		internal abstract FormatPostingsTermsConsumer AddField(FieldInfo field);
		
		/// <summary>Called when we are done adding everything. </summary>
		internal abstract void  Finish();
	}
}