namespace Lucene.Net.Facet.Taxonomy.WriterCache
{
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    /// <summary>
    /// Abstract class for storing Label->Ordinal mappings in a taxonomy. 
    /// 
    /// @lucene.experimental
    /// </summary>
    public abstract class LabelToOrdinal
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// How many ordinals we've seen. </summary>
        protected int m_counter;

        /// <summary>
        /// Returned by <see cref="GetOrdinal"/> when the label isn't
        /// recognized. 
        /// </summary>
        public const int INVALID_ORDINAL = -2;

        /// <summary>
        /// Default constructor.
        /// </summary>
        public LabelToOrdinal()
        {
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// return the maximal Ordinal assigned so far
        /// </summary>
        public virtual int MaxOrdinal
        {
            get
            {
                return this.m_counter;
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns the next unassigned ordinal. The default behavior of this method
        /// is to simply increment a counter.
        /// </summary>
        public virtual int GetNextOrdinal()
        {
            return this.m_counter++;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Adds a new label if its not yet in the table.
        /// Throws an <see cref="System.ArgumentException"/> if the same label with
        /// a different ordinal was previoulsy added to this table.
        /// </summary>
        public abstract void AddLabel(FacetLabel label, int ordinal);

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns the ordinal assigned to the given label, 
        /// or <see cref="INVALID_ORDINAL"/> if the label cannot be found in this table.
        /// </summary>
        public abstract int GetOrdinal(FacetLabel label);
    }
}