using System;

namespace Lucene.Net.Index
{
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    /// <summary>
    /// Encapsulates all required internal state to position the associated
    /// <seealso cref="TermsEnum"/> without re-seeking.
    /// </summary>
    /// <seealso cref= TermsEnum#seekExact(Lucene.Net.Util.BytesRef, TermState) </seealso>
    /// <seealso cref= TermsEnum#termState()
    /// @lucene.experimental </seealso>
#if FEATURE_SERIALIZABLE
    [Serializable]
#endif
    public abstract class TermState
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Sole constructor. (For invocation by subclass
        ///  constructors, typically implicit.)
        /// </summary>
        protected TermState()
        {
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Copies the content of the given <seealso cref="TermState"/> to this instance
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="other">
        ///          the TermState to copy </param>
        public abstract void CopyFrom(TermState other);

        public virtual object Clone()
        {
            return (TermState)base.MemberwiseClone();
        }

        public override string ToString()
        {
            return "TermState";
        }
    }
}