lucene/contrib/fast-vector-highlighter/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/vectorhighlight/FragmentsBuilder.java

package org.apache.lucene.search.vectorhighlight;

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import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader;

/**
 * FragmentsBuilder is an interface for fragments (snippets) builder classes.
 * A FragmentsBuilder class can be plugged in to Highlighter.
 */
public interface FragmentsBuilder {

  /**
   * create a fragment.
   * 
   * @param reader IndexReader of the index
   * @param docId document id to be highlighted
   * @param fieldName field of the document to be highlighted
   * @param fieldFragList FieldFragList object
   * @return a created fragment or null when no fragment created
   * @throws IOException
   */
  public String createFragment( IndexReader reader, int docId, String fieldName,
      FieldFragList fieldFragList ) throws IOException;

  /**
   * create multiple fragments.
   * 
   * @param reader IndexReader of the index
   * @param docId document id to be highlighter
   * @param fieldName field of the document to be highlighted
   * @param fieldFragList FieldFragList object
   * @param maxNumFragments maximum number of fragments
   * @return created fragments or null when no fragments created.
   *         size of the array can be less than maxNumFragments
   * @throws IOException
   */
  public String[] createFragments( IndexReader reader, int docId, String fieldName,
      FieldFragList fieldFragList, int maxNumFragments ) throws IOException;
}