namespace Lucene.Net.Codecs
{
    using System;

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    using Fields = Lucene.Net.Index.Fields;

    /// <summary>
    /// Abstract API that produces terms, doc, freq, prox, offset and
    ///  payloads postings.
    ///
    /// @lucene.experimental
    /// </summary>

    public abstract class FieldsProducer : Fields, IDisposable
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Sole constructor. (For invocation by subclass
        ///  constructors, typically implicit.)
        /// </summary>
        protected internal FieldsProducer()
        {
        }

        public abstract void Dispose();

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns approximate RAM bytes used </summary>
        public abstract long RamBytesUsed();

        /// <summary>
        /// Checks consistency of this reader.
        /// <p>
        /// Note that this may be costly in terms of I/O, e.g.
        /// may involve computing a checksum value against large data files.
        /// @lucene.internal
        /// </summary>
        public abstract void CheckIntegrity();
    }
}