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+package org.apache.lucene.analysis.tokenattributes;
+
+/**
+ * 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 org.apache.lucene.util.Attribute;
+
+/**
+ * A Token's lexical type. The Default value is "word".
+ */
+public interface TypeAttribute extends Attribute {
+
+ /** the default type */
+ public static final String DEFAULT_TYPE = "word";
+
+ /** Returns this Token's lexical type. Defaults to "word". */
+ public String type();
+
+ /** Set the lexical type.
+ @see #type() */
+ public void setType(String type);
+}