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1   package org.apache.maven.index;
2   
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21  
22  import java.io.Closeable;
23  import java.util.Iterator;
24  
25  /**
26   * IteratorResultSet, that returns the result hit's in "iterator-like fashion", instead lifting all the hits into memory
27   * (and bashing IO and RAM consumption). This makes search making client memory usage thin, and makes possible to
28   * implement things like "streaming" results etc. The result set is java.util.Iterator, but is made also
29   * java.lang.Iterable to make it possible to take part in operations like "for-each", but it will usually return itself
30   * as Iterator.
31   * 
32   * @author cstamas
33   */
34  public interface IteratorResultSet
35      extends Iterator<ArtifactInfo>, Iterable<ArtifactInfo>, Closeable
36  {
37      /**
38       * Returns the up-to-date number of the actual number of loaded Lucene Documents that were converted into
39       * ArtifactInfo object until last next() invocation. Warning: this method will return ALL touched/loaded document
40       * count, even those that are filtered out and NOT returned by iterator's next() method!
41       * 
42       * @return total number of processed ArtifactInfos so far
43       */
44      int getTotalProcessedArtifactInfoCount();
45  }