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| package org.apache.lucene.search.uhighlight; |
| |
| /** |
| * Creates a formatted snippet from the top passages. |
| * |
| * @lucene.experimental |
| */ |
| public abstract class PassageFormatter { |
| |
| /** |
| * Formats the top <code>passages</code> from <code>content</code> |
| * into a human-readable text snippet. |
| * |
| * @param passages top-N passages for the field. Note these are sorted in |
| * the order that they appear in the document for convenience. |
| * @param content content for the field. |
| * @return formatted highlight. Note that for the |
| * non-expert APIs in {@link UnifiedHighlighter} that |
| * return String, the toString method on the Object |
| * returned by this method is used to compute the string. |
| */ |
| public abstract Object format(Passage passages[], String content); |
| |
| } |