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package org.apache.lucene.search.highlight;

import org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenStream;

/**
 * Implements the policy for breaking text into multiple fragments for
 * consideration by the {@link Highlighter} class. A sophisticated
 * implementation may do this on the basis of detecting end of sentences in the
 * text.
 */
public interface Fragmenter {

    /**
     * Initializes the Fragmenter. You can grab references to the Attributes you are
     * interested in from tokenStream and then access the values in {@link #isNewFragment()}.
     * 
     * @param originalText the original source text
     * @param tokenStream the {@link TokenStream} to be fragmented
     */
    public void start(String originalText, TokenStream tokenStream);

    /**
     * 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.
     * 
     */
    public boolean isNewFragment();
}