TextLevelRule.java

/* LanguageTool, a natural language style checker 
 * Copyright (C) 2014 Daniel Naber (http://www.danielnaber.de)
 * 
 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
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 *
 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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 *
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 */
package org.languagetool.rules;

import org.languagetool.AnalyzedSentence;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ResourceBundle;

/**
 * A rule that considers the complete text, not just one sentence after
 * the other. Useful for rules that check coherency over sentence boundaries etc.
 * @since 2.7
 */
public abstract class TextLevelRule extends Rule {

  public abstract RuleMatch[] match(List<AnalyzedSentence> sentences) throws IOException;

  /**
   * @since 3.7
   */
  public TextLevelRule() {
    super();
  }

  /**
   * Called by rules that require a translation of their messages.
   */
  public TextLevelRule(ResourceBundle messages) {
    super(messages);
  }

  @Override
  public final RuleMatch[] match(AnalyzedSentence sentence) throws IOException {
    throw new RuntimeException("Not implemented for a text-level rule");
  }

}