StandardTokenizerInterface.java

package com.antbrains.wordseg.luceneanalyzer;

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import java.io.Reader;
import java.io.IOException;

interface StandardTokenizerInterface {

  /** This character denotes the end of file */
  public static final int YYEOF = -1;

  /**
   * Copies the matched text into the CharTermAttribute
   */
  void getText(CharTermAttribute t);

  /**
   * Returns the current position.
   */
  int yychar();

  /**
   * Resets the scanner to read from a new input stream. Does not close the old reader.
   *
   * All internal variables are reset, the old input stream <b>cannot</b> be reused (internal buffer
   * is discarded and lost). Lexical state is set to <tt>ZZ_INITIAL</tt>.
   *
   * @param reader
   *          the new input stream
   */
  void yyreset(Reader reader);

  /**
   * Returns the length of the matched text region.
   */
  int yylength();

  /**
   * Resumes scanning until the next regular expression is matched, the end of input is encountered
   * or an I/O-Error occurs.
   *
   * @return the next token, {@link #YYEOF} on end of stream
   * @exception IOException
   *              if any I/O-Error occurs
   */
  int getNextToken() throws IOException;

}