1 package org.apache.lucene.search.highlight; 2 /** 3 * Copyright 2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation 4 * 5 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 6 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 7 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 8 * 9 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 10 * 11 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 12 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 13 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 14 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 15 * limitations under the License. 16 */ 17 18 19 /** 20 * Processes terms found in the original text, typically by applying some form 21 * of mark-up to highlight terms in HTML search results pages. 22 * 23 */ 24 public interface Formatter 25 { 26 /** 27 * @param originalText The section of text being considered for markup 28 * @param tokenGroup contains one or several overlapping Tokens along with 29 * their scores and positions. 30 * @return 31 */ 32 String highlightTerm(String originalText, TokenGroup tokenGroup); 33 } 34