Method Advance

Advances to the first beyond the current whose document number is greater than or equal to target, and returns the document number itself. Exhausts the iterator and returns NO_MORE_DOCS if target is greater than the highest document number in the set.

The behavior of this method is undefined when called with target <= current, or after the iterator has exhausted. Both cases may result in unpredicted behavior.

When target > current it behaves as if written:

int Advance(int target) 
{
    int doc;
    while ((doc = NextDoc()) < target) 
    {
    }
    return doc;
}

Some implementations are considerably more efficient than that.

NOTE: this method may be called with NO_MORE_DOCS for efficiency by some Scorers. If your implementation cannot efficiently determine that it should exhaust, it is recommended that you check for that value in each call to this method.

@since 2.9