public abstract class
CharFilter

extends CharStream
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package org.apache.lucene.analysis;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * Subclasses of CharFilter can be chained to filter CharStream.
 * They can be used as {@link java.io.Reader} with additional offset
 * correction. {@link Tokenizer}s will automatically use {@link #correctOffset}
 * if a CharFilter/CharStream subclass is used.
 *
 * @version $Id$
 *
 */
public abstract class CharFilter extends CharStream {

  protected CharStream input;

  protected CharFilter(CharStream in) {
    input = in;
  }

  /**
   * Subclass may want to override to correct the current offset.
   *
   * @param currentOff current offset
   * @return corrected offset
   */
  protected int correct(int currentOff) {
    return currentOff;
  }

  /**
   * Chains the corrected offset through the input
   * CharFilter.
   */
  @Override
  public final int correctOffset(int currentOff) {
    return input.correctOffset(correct(currentOff));
  }

  @Override
  public void close() throws IOException {
    input.close();
  }

  @Override
  public int read(char[] cbuf, int off, int len) throws IOException {
    return input.read(cbuf, off, len);
  }

  @Override
  public boolean markSupported(){
    return input.markSupported();
  }

  @Override
  public void mark( int readAheadLimit ) throws IOException {
    input.mark(readAheadLimit);
  }

  @Override
  public void reset() throws IOException {
    input.reset();
  }
}
Classes

CharFilter
