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+package org.apache.lucene.search.vectorhighlight;
+
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.highlight.Encoder;
+
+/**
+ * {@link org.apache.lucene.search.vectorhighlight.FragmentsBuilder} is an interface for fragments (snippets) builder classes.
+ * A {@link org.apache.lucene.search.vectorhighlight.FragmentsBuilder} class can be plugged in to
+ * {@link org.apache.lucene.search.vectorhighlight.FastVectorHighlighter}.
+ */
+public interface FragmentsBuilder {
+
+ /**
+ * create a fragment.
+ *
+ * @param reader IndexReader of the index
+ * @param docId document id to be highlighted
+ * @param fieldName field of the document to be highlighted
+ * @param fieldFragList FieldFragList object
+ * @return a created fragment or null when no fragment created
+ * @throws IOException
+ */
+ public String createFragment( IndexReader reader, int docId, String fieldName,
+ FieldFragList fieldFragList ) throws IOException;
+
+ /**
+ * create multiple fragments.
+ *
+ * @param reader IndexReader of the index
+ * @param docId document id to be highlighter
+ * @param fieldName field of the document to be highlighted
+ * @param fieldFragList FieldFragList object
+ * @param maxNumFragments maximum number of fragments
+ * @return created fragments or null when no fragments created.
+ * size of the array can be less than maxNumFragments
+ * @throws IOException
+ */
+ public String[] createFragments( IndexReader reader, int docId, String fieldName,
+ FieldFragList fieldFragList, int maxNumFragments ) throws IOException;
+
+ /**
+ * create a fragment.
+ *
+ * @param reader IndexReader of the index
+ * @param docId document id to be highlighted
+ * @param fieldName field of the document to be highlighted
+ * @param fieldFragList FieldFragList object
+ * @param preTags pre-tags to be used to highlight terms
+ * @param postTags post-tags to be used to highlight terms
+ * @param encoder an encoder that generates encoded text
+ * @return a created fragment or null when no fragment created
+ * @throws IOException
+ */
+ public String createFragment( IndexReader reader, int docId, String fieldName,
+ FieldFragList fieldFragList, String[] preTags, String[] postTags,
+ Encoder encoder ) throws IOException;
+
+ /**
+ * create multiple fragments.
+ *
+ * @param reader IndexReader of the index
+ * @param docId document id to be highlighter
+ * @param fieldName field of the document to be highlighted
+ * @param fieldFragList FieldFragList object
+ * @param maxNumFragments maximum number of fragments
+ * @param preTags pre-tags to be used to highlight terms
+ * @param postTags post-tags to be used to highlight terms
+ * @param encoder an encoder that generates encoded text
+ * @return created fragments or null when no fragments created.
+ * size of the array can be less than maxNumFragments
+ * @throws IOException
+ */
+ public String[] createFragments( IndexReader reader, int docId, String fieldName,
+ FieldFragList fieldFragList, int maxNumFragments, String[] preTags, String[] postTags,
+ Encoder encoder ) throws IOException;
+}