org.apache.lucene.search.uhighlight

Class PassageFormatter

java.lang.Object

org.apache.lucene.search.uhighlight.PassageFormatter

Direct Known Subclasses:

DefaultPassageFormatter

public abstract class PassageFormatter
extends java.lang.Object

Creates a formatted snippet from the top passages.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
PassageFormatter()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
abstract java.lang.Object	format(Passage[] passages, java.lang.String content) Formats the top passages from content into a human-readable text snippet.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

PassageFormatter

public PassageFormatter()

Method Detail

format

public abstract java.lang.Object format(Passage[] passages,
                                        java.lang.String content)

Formats the top passages from content into a human-readable text snippet.

Parameters:

passages - top-N passages for the field. Note these are sorted in the order that they appear in the document for convenience.

content - content for the field.

Returns:

formatted highlight. Note that for the non-expert APIs in UnifiedHighlighter that return String, the toString method on the Object returned by this method is used to compute the string.