tokenstream.java

Lucene a java open-source SearchEngine Framework

package org.apache.lucene.analysis;

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import org.apache.lucene.index.Payload;

import java.io.IOException;

/** A TokenStream enumerates the sequence of tokens, either from
  fields of a document or from query text.
  <p>
  This is an abstract class.  Concrete subclasses are:
  <ul>
  <li>{@link Tokenizer}, a TokenStream
  whose input is a Reader; and
  <li>{@link TokenFilter}, a TokenStream
  whose input is another TokenStream.
  </ul>
  NOTE: subclasses must override at least one of {@link
  #next()} or {@link #next(Token)}.
  */

public abstract class TokenStream {

  /** Returns the next token in the stream, or null at EOS.
   *  The returned Token is a "full private copy" (not
   *  re-used across calls to next()) but will be slower
   *  than calling {@link #next(Token)} instead.. */
  public Token next() throws IOException {
    Token result = next(new Token());

    if (result != null) {
      Payload p = result.getPayload();
      if (p != null) {
        result.setPayload((Payload) p.clone());
      }
    }

    return result;
  }

  /** Returns the next token in the stream, or null at EOS.
   *  When possible, the input Token should be used as the
   *  returned Token (this gives fastest tokenization
   *  performance), but this is not required and a new Token
   *  may be returned. Callers may re-use a single Token
   *  instance for successive calls to this method.
   *  <p>
   *  This implicitly defines a "contract" between 
   *  consumers (callers of this method) and 
   *  producers (implementations of this method 
   *  that are the source for tokens):
   *  <ul>
   *   <li>A consumer must fully consume the previously 
   *       returned Token before calling this method again.</li>
   *   <li>A producer must call {@link Token#clear()}
   *       before setting the fields in it & returning it</li>
   *  </ul>
   *  Note that a {@link TokenFilter} is considered a consumer.
   *  @param result a Token that may or may not be used to return
   *  @return next token in the stream or null if end-of-stream was hit
   */
  public Token next(Token result) throws IOException {
    return next();
  }

  /** Resets this stream to the beginning. This is an
   *  optional operation, so subclasses may or may not
   *  implement this method. Reset() is not needed for
   *  the standard indexing process. However, if the Tokens 
   *  of a TokenStream are intended to be consumed more than 
   *  once, it is necessary to implement reset(). 
   */
  public void reset() throws IOException {}
  
  /** Releases resources associated with this stream. */
  public void close() throws IOException {}
}