Package 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 Object

Creates a formatted snippet from the top passages.

WARNING: This API is experimental and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
PassageFormatter()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
abstract Object	format(Passage[] passages, 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 Details

PassageFormatter

public PassageFormatter()

Method Details

format

public abstract Object format(Passage[] passages,
 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.