Returns a clone of this stream.

Clones of a stream access the same data, and are positioned at the same point as the stream they were cloned from.

Expert: Subclasses must ensure that clones may be positioned at different points in the input from each other and from the stream they were cloned from.

Closes the stream to futher operations.

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.

Returns the current position in this file, where the next read will occur.

Serves as a hash function for a particular type.

Gets the Type of the current instance.

The number of bytes in the file.

Creates a shallow copy of the current Object.

Reads and returns a single byte.

Reads a specified number of bytes into an array at the specified offset.

Reads a specified number of bytes into an array at the specified offset with control over whether the read should be buffered (callers who have their own buffer should pass in "false" for useBuffer). Currently only {@link BufferedIndexInput} respects this parameter.

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

Reads four bytes and returns an int.

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.

Sets current position in this file, where the next read will occur.

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.