content: package org.apache.lucene.store;
  
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  import java.io.IOException;
  import java.io.Closeable;
  
  /** Abstract base class for input from a file in a {@link Directory}.  A
   * random-access input stream.  Used for all Lucene index input operations.
   * @see Directory
   */
  public abstract class IndexInput extends DataInput implements Cloneable,Closeable {
  
    /**
     * Expert
     * 
     * Similar to {@link #readChars(char[], int, int)} but does not do any conversion operations on the bytes it is reading in.  It still
     * has to invoke {@link #readByte()} just as {@link #readChars(char[], int, int)} does, but it does not need a buffer to store anything
     * and it does not have to do any of the bitwise operations, since we don't actually care what is in the byte except to determine
     * how many more bytes to read
     * @param length The number of chars to read
     * @deprecated this method operates on old "modified utf8" encoded
     *             strings
     */
    @Deprecated
    public void skipChars(int length) throws IOException{
      for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
        byte b = readByte();
        if ((b & 0x80) == 0){
          //do nothing, we only need one byte
        } else if ((b & 0xE0) != 0xE0) {
          readByte();//read an additional byte
        } else {      
          //read two additional bytes.
          readByte();
          readByte();
        }
      }
    }
  
    private final String resourceDescription;
  
    /** @deprecated please pass resourceDescription */
    @Deprecated
    protected IndexInput() {
      this("anonymous IndexInput");
    }
  
    /** resourceDescription should be a non-null, opaque string
     *  describing this resource; it's returned from
     *  {@link #toString}. */
    protected IndexInput(String resourceDescription) {
      if (resourceDescription == null) {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("resourceDescription must not be null");
      }
      this.resourceDescription = resourceDescription;
    }
  
    /** Closes the stream to further operations. */
    public abstract void close() throws IOException;
  
    /** Returns the current position in this file, where the next read will
     * occur.
     * @see #seek(long)
     */
    public abstract long getFilePointer();
  
    /** Sets current position in this file, where the next read will occur.
     * @see #getFilePointer()
     */
    public abstract void seek(long pos) throws IOException;
  
    /** The number of bytes in the file. */
    public abstract long length();
  
    /**
     * Copies <code>numBytes</code> bytes to the given {@link IndexOutput}.
     * <p>
     * <b>NOTE:</b> this method uses an intermediate buffer to copy the bytes.
     * Consider overriding it in your implementation, if you can make a better,
     * optimized copy.
     * <p>
     * <b>NOTE</b> ensure that there are enough bytes in the input to copy to
     * output. Otherwise, different exceptions may be thrown, depending on the
     * implementation.
     */
    public void copyBytes(IndexOutput out, long numBytes) throws IOException {
      assert numBytes >= 0: "numBytes=" + numBytes;
  
      byte copyBuf[] = new byte[BufferedIndexInput.BUFFER_SIZE];
  
      while (numBytes > 0) {
        final int toCopy = (int) (numBytes > copyBuf.length ? copyBuf.length : numBytes);
        readBytes(copyBuf, 0, toCopy);
        out.writeBytes(copyBuf, 0, toCopy);
        numBytes -= toCopy;
      }
    }
  
    @Override
    public String toString() {
      return resourceDescription;
    }
  }
  