package org.apache.lucene.search.join;

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import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.lucene.index.LeafReaderContext;
import org.apache.lucene.util.BitSet;

/**
 * A producer of {@link BitSet}s per segment.
 */
public interface BitSetProducer {

  /**
   * Produce a {@link BitSet} matching the expected documents on the given
   * segment. This may return {@code null} if no documents match.
   */
  BitSet getBitSet(LeafReaderContext context) throws IOException;

}
