Class DataInput

  • All Implemented Interfaces:
    Cloneable
    Direct Known Subclasses:
    ByteArrayDataInput, FST.BytesReader, IndexInput, InputStreamDataInput, PagedBytes.PagedBytesDataInput

    public abstract class DataInput
    extends Object
    implements Cloneable
    Abstract base class for performing read operations of Lucene's low-level data types.

    DataInput may only be used from one thread, because it is not thread safe (it keeps internal state like file position). To allow multithreaded use, every DataInput instance must be cloned before used in another thread. Subclasses must therefore implement clone(), returning a new DataInput which operates on the same underlying resource, but positioned independently.