namespace Lucene.Net.Codecs
{
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    using FieldInfos = Lucene.Net.Index.FieldInfos; // javadocs

    /// <summary>
    /// Encodes/decodes <seealso cref="FieldInfos"/>
    /// @lucene.experimental
    /// </summary>
    public abstract class FieldInfosFormat
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Sole constructor. (For invocation by subclass
        ///  constructors, typically implicit.)
        /// </summary>
        protected internal FieldInfosFormat()
        {
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns a <seealso cref="FieldInfosReader"/> to read field infos
        ///  from the index
        /// </summary>
        public abstract FieldInfosReader FieldInfosReader { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns a <seealso cref="FieldInfosWriter"/> to write field infos
        ///  to the index
        /// </summary>
        public abstract FieldInfosWriter FieldInfosWriter { get; }
    }
}