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package org.apache.lucene.index;

/**
 * Controls how much information is stored in the postings lists.
 *
 * @lucene.experimental
 */
public enum IndexOptions {
  // NOTE: order is important here; enum ordinals can be used to compare options.
  /** Not indexed */
  NONE,
  /**
   * Only documents are indexed: term frequencies and positions are omitted. Phrase and other
   * positional queries on the field will throw an exception, and scoring will behave as if any term
   * in the document appears only once.
   */
  DOCS,
  /**
   * Only documents and term frequencies are indexed: positions are omitted. This enables normal
   * scoring, except Phrase and other positional queries will throw an exception.
   */
  DOCS_AND_FREQS,
  /**
   * Indexes documents, frequencies and positions. This is a typical default for full-text search:
   * full scoring is enabled and positional queries are supported.
   */
  DOCS_AND_FREQS_AND_POSITIONS,
  /**
   * Indexes documents, frequencies, positions and offsets. Character offsets are encoded alongside
   * the positions.
   */
  DOCS_AND_FREQS_AND_POSITIONS_AND_OFFSETS,
}
