/*
* Copyright (C) 2011 Laurent Caillette
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either
* version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
package org.novelang.novelist;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
import com.google.common.collect.Iterators;
import com.google.common.collect.PeekingIterator;
/**
* Represents a sequence of {@link TextElement}s (mainly {@link Word}s and {@link Punctuation}
* signs).
*
* @author Laurent Caillette
*/
public class Sentence implements TextElement {
private final List< TextElement > textElements ;
public Sentence( final TextElement... textElements ) {
this( Arrays.asList( textElements ) ) ;
}
public Sentence( final List< TextElement > textElements ) {
this.textElements = ImmutableList.copyOf( textElements ) ;
}
public Iterator< TextElement > iterator() {
return textElements.iterator() ;
}
@Override
public String getLiteral() {
final StringBuilder text = new StringBuilder() ;
final PeekingIterator< TextElement > peekingIterator = Iterators.peekingIterator( iterator() ) ;
while( peekingIterator.hasNext() ) {
final TextElement textElement = peekingIterator.next() ;
text.append( textElement.getLiteral() ) ;
if( peekingIterator.hasNext() && peekingIterator.peek() instanceof Word ) {
text.append( " " ) ;
}
}
return text.toString() ;
}
}