src/contrib/Highlighter/IFragmenter.cs

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using Lucene.Net.Analysis;

namespace Lucene.Net.Search.Highlight
{

    /// <summary> Implements the policy for breaking text into multiple fragments for consideration
    /// by the <see cref="Highlighter"/> class. A sophisticated implementation may do this on the basis
    /// of detecting end of sentences in the text. 
    /// </summary>
    /// <author>  mark@searcharea.co.uk
    /// </author>
    public interface IFragmenter
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Initializes the Fragmenter. You can grab references to the Attributes you are
        /// interested in from tokenStream and then access the values in {@link #isNewFragment()}.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="originalText">the original source text</param>
        ///<param name="tokenStream">tokenStream the <see cref="TokenStream" /> to be fragmented</param>
        void Start(string originalText, TokenStream tokenStream);

        /// <summary>
        /// Test to see if this token from the stream should be held in a new
        /// TextFragment. Every time this is called, the TokenStream
        /// passed to start(String, TokenStream) will have been incremented.
        /// </summary>
        bool IsNewFragment();
    }
}