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1/*
2**********************************************************************
3* Copyright (C) 1999-2006, International Business Machines Corporation and others.
4* All Rights Reserved.
5**********************************************************************
6* Date Name Description
7* 11/17/99 aliu Creation.
8**********************************************************************
9*/
10#ifndef UNIFILT_H
11#define UNIFILT_H
12
13#include "unicode/unifunct.h"
14#include "unicode/unimatch.h"
15
16/**
17 * \file
18 * \brief C++ API: Unicode Filter
19 */
20
21U_NAMESPACE_BEGIN
22
23/**
24 * U_ETHER is used to represent character values for positions outside
25 * a range. For example, transliterator uses this to represent
26 * characters outside the range contextStart..contextLimit-1. This
27 * allows explicit matching by rules and UnicodeSets of text outside a
28 * defined range.
29 * @stable ICU 3.0
30 */
31#define U_ETHER ((UChar)0xFFFF)
32
33/**
34 *
35 * <code>UnicodeFilter</code> defines a protocol for selecting a
36 * subset of the full range (U+0000 to U+10FFFF) of Unicode characters.
37 * Currently, filters are used in conjunction with classes like {@link
38 * Transliterator} to only process selected characters through a
39 * transformation.
40 *
41 * <p>Note: UnicodeFilter currently stubs out two pure virtual methods
42 * of its base class, UnicodeMatcher. These methods are toPattern()
43 * and matchesIndexValue(). This is done so that filter classes that
44 * are not actually used as matchers -- specifically, those in the
45 * UnicodeFilterLogic component, and those in tests -- can continue to
46 * work without defining these methods. As long as a filter is not
47 * used in an RBT during real transliteration, these methods will not
48 * be called. However, this breaks the UnicodeMatcher base class
49 * protocol, and it is not a correct solution.
50 *
51 * <p>In the future we may revisit the UnicodeMatcher / UnicodeFilter
52 * hierarchy and either redesign it, or simply remove the stubs in
53 * UnicodeFilter and force subclasses to implement the full
54 * UnicodeMatcher protocol.
55 *
56 * @see UnicodeFilterLogic
57 * @stable ICU 2.0
58 */
59class U_COMMON_API UnicodeFilter : public UnicodeFunctor, public UnicodeMatcher {
60
61public:
62 /**
63 * Destructor
64 * @stable ICU 2.0
65 */
66 virtual ~UnicodeFilter();
67
68 /**
69 * Returns <tt>true</tt> for characters that are in the selected
70 * subset. In other words, if a character is <b>to be
71 * filtered</b>, then <tt>contains()</tt> returns
72 * <b><tt>false</tt></b>.
73 * @stable ICU 2.0
74 */
75 virtual UBool contains(UChar32 c) const = 0;
76
77 /**
78 * UnicodeFunctor API. Cast 'this' to a UnicodeMatcher* pointer
79 * and return the pointer.
80 * @stable ICU 2.4
81 */
82 virtual UnicodeMatcher* toMatcher() const;
83
84 /**
85 * Implement UnicodeMatcher API.
86 * @stable ICU 2.4
87 */
88 virtual UMatchDegree matches(const Replaceable& text,
89 int32_t& offset,
90 int32_t limit,
91 UBool incremental);
92
93 /**
94 * UnicodeFunctor API. Nothing to do.
95 * @stable ICU 2.4
96 */
97 virtual void setData(const TransliterationRuleData*);
98
99 /**
100 * ICU "poor man's RTTI", returns a UClassID for the actual class.
101 *
102 * @stable ICU 2.2
103 */
104 virtual UClassID getDynamicClassID() const = 0;
105
106 /**
107 * ICU "poor man's RTTI", returns a UClassID for this class.
108 *
109 * @stable ICU 2.2
110 */
111 static UClassID U_EXPORT2 getStaticClassID();
112
113protected:
114
115 /*
116 * Since this class has pure virtual functions,
117 * a constructor can't be used.
118 * @stable ICU 2.0
119 */
120/* UnicodeFilter();*/
121};
122
123/*inline UnicodeFilter::UnicodeFilter() {}*/
124
125U_NAMESPACE_END
126
127#endif