public class

SingleTermEnum

extends FilteredTermEnum
package org.apache.lucene.search;

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import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader;
import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;

/**
 * Subclass of FilteredTermEnum for enumerating a single term.
 * <p>
 * This can be used by {@link MultiTermQuery}s that need only visit one term,
 * but want to preserve MultiTermQuery semantics such as
 * {@link MultiTermQuery#rewriteMethod}.
 */
public class SingleTermEnum extends FilteredTermEnum {
  private Term singleTerm;
  private boolean endEnum = false;
  
  /**
   * Creates a new <code>SingleTermEnum</code>.
   * <p>
   * After calling the constructor the enumeration is already pointing to the term,
   * if it exists.
   */
  public SingleTermEnum(IndexReader reader, Term singleTerm) throws IOException {
    super();
    this.singleTerm = singleTerm;
    setEnum(reader.terms(singleTerm));
  }

  @Override
  public float difference() {
    return 1.0F;
  }

  @Override
  protected boolean endEnum() {
    return endEnum;
  }

  @Override
  protected boolean termCompare(Term term) {
    if (term.equals(singleTerm)) {
      return true;
    } else {
      endEnum = true;
      return false;
    }
  }
}