TextInputter.java

package edu.northwestern.at.utils.corpuslinguistics.inputter;

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import java.io.*;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.List;

import edu.northwestern.at.utils.corpuslinguistics.tokenizer.*;
import edu.northwestern.at.utils.PatternReplacer;

/**	Interface for retrieving text from a possibly segmented input source.
 */

public interface TextInputter
{
	/**	Reads text from a URL.
	 *
	 *	@param	url				URL from which to read text.
	 *	@param	encoding		Text encoding.
	 *
	 *	@throws	IOException		If an error occurs.
	 */

	public void loadText( URL url , String encoding )
		throws Exception;

	/**	Reads text from a URL using a specified XML schema.
	 *
	 *	@param	url					URL from which to read text.
	 *	@param	encoding			Text encoding.
	 *	@param	xmlSchemaURI		String URI specifying Xml schema.
	 *
	 *	@throws	Exception			If an error occurs.
	 *
	 *	<p>
	 *	The schema and schema type should be ignored when the input
	 *	is not an XML file.
	 *	</p>
	 */

	public void loadText
	(
		URL url ,
		String encoding ,
		String xmlSchemaURI
	)
		throws Exception;

	/**	Returns number of text segments.
	 *
	 *	@return		Number of text segments.
	 */

	public int getSegmentCount();

	/**	Returns name of specified segment.
	 *
	 *	@param	segmentNumber	The segment number (starts at 0).
	 *
	 *	@return					The name for the specified
	 *							segment number, or null if the
	 *							segment number is invalid.
	 */

	public String getSegmentName( int segmentNumber );

	/**	Returns specified segment of loaded text.
	 *
	 *	@param	segmentNumber	The segment number (starts at 0).
	 *
	 *	@return					The text for for the specified
	 *							segment number, or null if the
	 *							segment number is invalid.  The
	 *							returned text may be an empty string
	 *							if the segment number is valid but
	 *							the segment contains no text.
	 */

	public String getSegmentText( int segmentNumber );

	/**	Returns specified segment of loaded text.
	 *
	 *	@param	segmentName		The segment name.
	 *
	 *	@return					The text for for the specified
	 *							segment name, or null if the
	 *							segment name is invalid.  The
	 *							returned text may be an empty string
	 *							if the segment name is valid but
	 *							the segment contains no text.
	 */

	public String getSegmentText( String segmentName );

	/**	Updates specified segment of loaded text.
	 *
	 *	@param	segmentNumber	The segment number (starts at 0).
	 *	@param	segmentText		The updated segment text.
	 */

	public void setSegmentText( int segmentNumber , String segmentText );

	/**	Returns specified segment of loaded text.
	 *
	 *	@param	segmentName		The segment name.
	 *	@param	segmentText		The updated segment text.
	 */

	public void setSegmentText( String segmentName , String segmentText );

	/**	Updates specified segment of loaded text from file.
	 *
	 *	@param	segmentNumber	The segment number (starts at 0).
	 *	@param	segmentTextFile	The file containing the updated segment text.
	 */

	public void setSegmentText( int segmentNumber , File segmentTextFile );

	/**	Returns specified segment of loaded text.
	 *
	 *	@param	segmentName		The segment name.
	 *	@param	segmentTextFile	The file containing the updated segment text.
	 */

	public void setSegmentText( String segmentName , File segmentTextFile );

	/**	Enable gap element fixer.
	 *
	 *	@param	fixGaps		true to fix gap tags.
	 */

	public void enableGapFixer( boolean fixGaps );

	/**	Enable orig element fixer.
	 *
	 *	@param	fixOrigs		true to fix orig tags.
	 */

	public void enableOrigFixer( boolean fixOrigs );

	/**	Enable split words fixer.
	 *
	 *	@param	fixSplitWords		true to fix selected split words.
	 *	@param	patternReplacers	Patterns for fixing split words.
	 */

	public void enableSplitWordsFixer
	(
		boolean fixSplitWords ,
		List<PatternReplacer> patternReplacers
	);
}

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