package org.apache.lucene.index;

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/**
 * A list of per-document numeric values, sorted 
 * according to {@link Long#compare(long, long)}.
 */
public abstract class SortedNumericDocValues {
  
  /** Sole constructor. (For invocation by subclass 
   * constructors, typically implicit.) */
  protected SortedNumericDocValues() {}

  /** 
   * Positions to the specified document 
   */
  public abstract void setDocument(int doc);
  
  /** 
   * Retrieve the value for the current document at the specified index. 
   * An index ranges from {@code 0} to {@code count()-1}. 
   */
  public abstract long valueAt(int index);
  
  /** 
   * Retrieves the count of values for the current document. 
   * This may be zero if a document has no values.
   */
  public abstract int count();
}