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package org.apache.lucene.index;

import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.lucene.document.KnnFloatVectorField;
import org.apache.lucene.search.DocIdSetIterator;

/**
 * This class provides access to per-document floating point vector values indexed as {@link
 * KnnFloatVectorField}.
 *
 * @lucene.experimental
 */
public abstract class FloatVectorValues extends DocIdSetIterator {

  /** Sole constructor */
  protected FloatVectorValues() {}

  /** Return the dimension of the vectors */
  public abstract int dimension();

  /**
   * Return the number of vectors for this field.
   *
   * @return the number of vectors returned by this iterator
   */
  public abstract int size();

  @Override
  public final long cost() {
    return size();
  }

  /**
   * Return the vector value for the current document ID. It is illegal to call this method when the
   * iterator is not positioned: before advancing, or after failing to advance. The returned array
   * may be shared across calls, re-used, and modified as the iterator advances.
   *
   * @return the vector value
   */
  public abstract float[] vectorValue() throws IOException;
}
