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package org.apache.lucene.index;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef;

/**
 * A per-document numeric value.
 */
public abstract class BinaryDocValues extends DocValuesIterator {
  
  /** Sole constructor. (For invocation by subclass 
   *  constructors, typically implicit.) */
  protected BinaryDocValues() {}

  /**
   * Returns the binary value for the current document ID.
   * It is illegal to call this method after {@link #advanceExact(int)}
   * returned {@code false}.
   * @return binary value
   */
  public abstract BytesRef binaryValue() throws IOException;
}
