Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object.

Allows an Object to attempt to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before the Object is reclaimed by garbage collection.

Serves as a hash function for a particular type.

Gets the Type of the current instance.

Method used for testing. Returns true if the underlying file descriptor is valid.

Creates a shallow copy of the current Object.

Reads Lucene's old "modified UTF-8" encoded characters into an array.

Reads four bytes and returns an int.

IndexInput methods

Reads eight bytes and returns a long.

Reads a string.

Reads an int stored in variable-length format. Reads between one and five bytes. Smaller values take fewer bytes. Negative numbers are not supported.

Reads a long stored in variable-length format. Reads between one and nine bytes. Smaller values take fewer bytes. Negative numbers are not supported.

Change the buffer size used by this IndexInput

Call this if readString should read characters stored in the old modified UTF8 format (length in java chars and java's modified UTF8 encoding). This is used for indices written pre-2.4 See LUCENE-510 for details.

Expert Similar to {@link #ReadChars(char[], int, int)} but does not do any conversion operations on the bytes it is reading in. It still has to invoke {@link #ReadByte()} just as {@link #ReadChars(char[], int, int)} does, but it does not need a buffer to store anything and it does not have to do any of the bitwise operations, since we don't actually care what is in the byte except to determine how many more bytes to read

Returns a String that represents the current Object.