2 ********************************************************************************
3 * Copyright (C) 1997-2014, International Business Machines
4 * Corporation and others. All Rights Reserved.
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9 * Modification History:
11 * Date Name Description
12 * 02/18/97 aliu Added typedef for TextCount. Made DONE const.
13 * 05/07/97 aliu Fixed DLL declaration.
14 * 07/09/97 jfitz Renamed BreakIterator and interface synced with JDK
15 * 08/11/98 helena Sync-up JDK1.2.
16 * 01/13/2000 helena Added UErrorCode parameter to createXXXInstance methods.
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23 #include "unicode/utypes.h"
27 * \brief C++ API: Break Iterator.
30 #if UCONFIG_NO_BREAK_ITERATION
35 * Allow the declaration of APIs with pointers to BreakIterator
36 * even when break iteration is removed from the build.
44 #include "unicode/uobject.h"
45 #include "unicode/unistr.h"
46 #include "unicode/chariter.h"
47 #include "unicode/locid.h"
48 #include "unicode/ubrk.h"
49 #include "unicode/strenum.h"
50 #include "unicode/utext.h"
51 #include "unicode/umisc.h"
56 * The BreakIterator class implements methods for finding the location
57 * of boundaries in text. BreakIterator is an abstract base class.
58 * Instances of BreakIterator maintain a current position and scan over
59 * text returning the index of characters where boundaries occur.
61 * Line boundary analysis determines where a text string can be broken
62 * when line-wrapping. The mechanism correctly handles punctuation and
65 * Sentence boundary analysis allows selection with correct
66 * interpretation of periods within numbers and abbreviations, and
67 * trailing punctuation marks such as quotation marks and parentheses.
69 * Word boundary analysis is used by search and replace functions, as
70 * well as within text editing applications that allow the user to
71 * select words with a double click. Word selection provides correct
72 * interpretation of punctuation marks within and following
73 * words. Characters that are not part of a word, such as symbols or
74 * punctuation marks, have word-breaks on both sides.
76 * Character boundary analysis allows users to interact with
77 * characters as they expect to, for example, when moving the cursor
78 * through a text string. Character boundary analysis provides correct
79 * navigation of through character strings, regardless of how the
80 * character is stored. For example, an accented character might be
81 * stored as a base character and a diacritical mark. What users
82 * consider to be a character can differ between languages.
84 * The text boundary positions are found according to the rules
85 * described in Unicode Standard Annex #29, Text Boundaries, and
86 * Unicode Standard Annex #14, Line Breaking Properties. These
87 * are available at http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/ and
88 * http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr29/.
90 * In addition to the C++ API defined in this header file, a
91 * plain C API with equivalent functionality is defined in the
94 * Code snippets illustrating the use of the Break Iterator APIs
95 * are available in the ICU User Guide,
96 * http://icu-project.org/userguide/boundaryAnalysis.html
97 * and in the sample program icu/source/samples/break/break.cpp
100 class U_COMMON_API BreakIterator
: public UObject
{
106 virtual ~BreakIterator();
109 * Return true if another object is semantically equal to this
110 * one. The other object should be an instance of the same subclass of
111 * BreakIterator. Objects of different subclasses are considered
114 * Return true if this BreakIterator is at the same position in the
115 * same text, and is the same class and type (word, line, etc.) of
116 * BreakIterator, as the argument. Text is considered the same if
117 * it contains the same characters, it need not be the same
118 * object, and styles are not considered.
121 virtual UBool
operator==(const BreakIterator
&) const = 0;
124 * Returns the complement of the result of operator==
125 * @param rhs The BreakIterator to be compared for inequality
126 * @return the complement of the result of operator==
129 UBool
operator!=(const BreakIterator
& rhs
) const { return !operator==(rhs
); }
132 * Return a polymorphic copy of this object. This is an abstract
133 * method which subclasses implement.
136 virtual BreakIterator
* clone(void) const = 0;
139 * Return a polymorphic class ID for this object. Different subclasses
140 * will return distinct unequal values.
143 virtual UClassID
getDynamicClassID(void) const = 0;
146 * Return a CharacterIterator over the text being analyzed.
149 virtual CharacterIterator
& getText(void) const = 0;
153 * Get a UText for the text being analyzed.
154 * The returned UText is a shallow clone of the UText used internally
155 * by the break iterator implementation. It can safely be used to
156 * access the text without impacting any break iterator operations,
157 * but the underlying text itself must not be altered.
159 * @param fillIn A UText to be filled in. If NULL, a new UText will be
160 * allocated to hold the result.
161 * @param status receives any error codes.
162 * @return The current UText for this break iterator. If an input
163 * UText was provided, it will always be returned.
166 virtual UText
*getUText(UText
*fillIn
, UErrorCode
&status
) const = 0;
169 * Change the text over which this operates. The text boundary is
170 * reset to the start.
171 * @param text The UnicodeString used to change the text.
174 virtual void setText(const UnicodeString
&text
) = 0;
177 * Reset the break iterator to operate over the text represented by
178 * the UText. The iterator position is reset to the start.
180 * This function makes a shallow clone of the supplied UText. This means
181 * that the caller is free to immediately close or otherwise reuse the
182 * Utext that was passed as a parameter, but that the underlying text itself
183 * must not be altered while being referenced by the break iterator.
185 * All index positions returned by break iterator functions are
186 * native indices from the UText. For example, when breaking UTF-8
187 * encoded text, the break positions returned by next(), previous(), etc.
188 * will be UTF-8 string indices, not UTF-16 positions.
190 * @param text The UText used to change the text.
191 * @param status receives any error codes.
194 virtual void setText(UText
*text
, UErrorCode
&status
) = 0;
197 * Change the text over which this operates. The text boundary is
198 * reset to the start.
199 * Note that setText(UText *) provides similar functionality to this function,
200 * and is more efficient.
201 * @param it The CharacterIterator used to change the text.
204 virtual void adoptText(CharacterIterator
* it
) = 0;
208 * DONE is returned by previous() and next() after all valid
209 * boundaries have been returned.
216 * Sets the current iteration position to the beginning of the text, position zero.
217 * @return The offset of the beginning of the text, zero.
220 virtual int32_t first(void) = 0;
223 * Set the iterator position to the index immediately BEYOND the last character in the text being scanned.
224 * @return The index immediately BEYOND the last character in the text being scanned.
227 virtual int32_t last(void) = 0;
230 * Set the iterator position to the boundary preceding the current boundary.
231 * @return The character index of the previous text boundary or DONE if all
232 * boundaries have been returned.
235 virtual int32_t previous(void) = 0;
238 * Advance the iterator to the boundary following the current boundary.
239 * @return The character index of the next text boundary or DONE if all
240 * boundaries have been returned.
243 virtual int32_t next(void) = 0;
246 * Return character index of the current interator position within the text.
247 * @return The boundary most recently returned.
250 virtual int32_t current(void) const = 0;
253 * Advance the iterator to the first boundary following the specified offset.
254 * The value returned is always greater than the offset or
255 * the value BreakIterator.DONE
256 * @param offset the offset to begin scanning.
257 * @return The first boundary after the specified offset.
260 virtual int32_t following(int32_t offset
) = 0;
263 * Set the iterator position to the first boundary preceding the specified offset.
264 * The value returned is always smaller than the offset or
265 * the value BreakIterator.DONE
266 * @param offset the offset to begin scanning.
267 * @return The first boundary before the specified offset.
270 virtual int32_t preceding(int32_t offset
) = 0;
273 * Return true if the specfied position is a boundary position.
274 * As a side effect, the current position of the iterator is set
275 * to the first boundary position at or following the specified offset.
276 * @param offset the offset to check.
277 * @return True if "offset" is a boundary position.
280 virtual UBool
isBoundary(int32_t offset
) = 0;
283 * Set the iterator position to the nth boundary from the current boundary
284 * @param n the number of boundaries to move by. A value of 0
285 * does nothing. Negative values move to previous boundaries
286 * and positive values move to later boundaries.
287 * @return The new iterator position, or
288 * DONE if there are fewer than |n| boundaries in the specfied direction.
291 virtual int32_t next(int32_t n
) = 0;
294 * For RuleBasedBreakIterators, return the status tag from the
295 * break rule that determined the most recently
296 * returned break position.
298 * For break iterator types that do not support a rule status,
299 * a default value of 0 is returned.
301 * @return the status from the break rule that determined the most recently
302 * returned break position.
303 * @see RuleBaseBreakIterator::getRuleStatus()
307 virtual int32_t getRuleStatus() const;
310 * For RuleBasedBreakIterators, get the status (tag) values from the break rule(s)
311 * that determined the most recently returned break position.
313 * For break iterator types that do not support rule status,
314 * no values are returned.
316 * The returned status value(s) are stored into an array provided by the caller.
317 * The values are stored in sorted (ascending) order.
318 * If the capacity of the output array is insufficient to hold the data,
319 * the output will be truncated to the available length, and a
320 * U_BUFFER_OVERFLOW_ERROR will be signaled.
322 * @see RuleBaseBreakIterator::getRuleStatusVec
324 * @param fillInVec an array to be filled in with the status values.
325 * @param capacity the length of the supplied vector. A length of zero causes
326 * the function to return the number of status values, in the
327 * normal way, without attemtping to store any values.
328 * @param status receives error codes.
329 * @return The number of rule status values from rules that determined
330 * the most recent boundary returned by the break iterator.
331 * In the event of a U_BUFFER_OVERFLOW_ERROR, the return value
332 * is the total number of status values that were available,
333 * not the reduced number that were actually returned.
337 virtual int32_t getRuleStatusVec(int32_t *fillInVec
, int32_t capacity
, UErrorCode
&status
);
340 * Create BreakIterator for word-breaks using the given locale.
341 * Returns an instance of a BreakIterator implementing word breaks.
342 * WordBreak is useful for word selection (ex. double click)
343 * @param where the locale.
344 * @param status the error code
345 * @return A BreakIterator for word-breaks. The UErrorCode& status
346 * parameter is used to return status information to the user.
347 * To check whether the construction succeeded or not, you should check
348 * the value of U_SUCCESS(err). If you wish more detailed information, you
349 * can check for informational error results which still indicate success.
350 * U_USING_FALLBACK_WARNING indicates that a fall back locale was used. For
351 * example, 'de_CH' was requested, but nothing was found there, so 'de' was
352 * used. U_USING_DEFAULT_WARNING indicates that the default locale data was
353 * used; neither the requested locale nor any of its fall back locales
355 * The caller owns the returned object and is responsible for deleting it.
358 static BreakIterator
* U_EXPORT2
359 createWordInstance(const Locale
& where
, UErrorCode
& status
);
362 * Create BreakIterator for line-breaks using specified locale.
363 * Returns an instance of a BreakIterator implementing line breaks. Line
364 * breaks are logically possible line breaks, actual line breaks are
365 * usually determined based on display width.
366 * LineBreak is useful for word wrapping text.
367 * @param where the locale.
368 * @param status The error code.
369 * @return A BreakIterator for line-breaks. The UErrorCode& status
370 * parameter is used to return status information to the user.
371 * To check whether the construction succeeded or not, you should check
372 * the value of U_SUCCESS(err). If you wish more detailed information, you
373 * can check for informational error results which still indicate success.
374 * U_USING_FALLBACK_WARNING indicates that a fall back locale was used. For
375 * example, 'de_CH' was requested, but nothing was found there, so 'de' was
376 * used. U_USING_DEFAULT_WARNING indicates that the default locale data was
377 * used; neither the requested locale nor any of its fall back locales
379 * The caller owns the returned object and is responsible for deleting it.
382 static BreakIterator
* U_EXPORT2
383 createLineInstance(const Locale
& where
, UErrorCode
& status
);
386 * Create BreakIterator for character-breaks using specified locale
387 * Returns an instance of a BreakIterator implementing character breaks.
388 * Character breaks are boundaries of combining character sequences.
389 * @param where the locale.
390 * @param status The error code.
391 * @return A BreakIterator for character-breaks. The UErrorCode& status
392 * parameter is used to return status information to the user.
393 * To check whether the construction succeeded or not, you should check
394 * the value of U_SUCCESS(err). If you wish more detailed information, you
395 * can check for informational error results which still indicate success.
396 * U_USING_FALLBACK_WARNING indicates that a fall back locale was used. For
397 * example, 'de_CH' was requested, but nothing was found there, so 'de' was
398 * used. U_USING_DEFAULT_WARNING indicates that the default locale data was
399 * used; neither the requested locale nor any of its fall back locales
401 * The caller owns the returned object and is responsible for deleting it.
404 static BreakIterator
* U_EXPORT2
405 createCharacterInstance(const Locale
& where
, UErrorCode
& status
);
408 * Create BreakIterator for sentence-breaks using specified locale
409 * Returns an instance of a BreakIterator implementing sentence breaks.
410 * @param where the locale.
411 * @param status The error code.
412 * @return A BreakIterator for sentence-breaks. The UErrorCode& status
413 * parameter is used to return status information to the user.
414 * To check whether the construction succeeded or not, you should check
415 * the value of U_SUCCESS(err). If you wish more detailed information, you
416 * can check for informational error results which still indicate success.
417 * U_USING_FALLBACK_WARNING indicates that a fall back locale was used. For
418 * example, 'de_CH' was requested, but nothing was found there, so 'de' was
419 * used. U_USING_DEFAULT_WARNING indicates that the default locale data was
420 * used; neither the requested locale nor any of its fall back locales
422 * The caller owns the returned object and is responsible for deleting it.
425 static BreakIterator
* U_EXPORT2
426 createSentenceInstance(const Locale
& where
, UErrorCode
& status
);
429 * Create BreakIterator for title-casing breaks using the specified locale
430 * Returns an instance of a BreakIterator implementing title breaks.
431 * The iterator returned locates title boundaries as described for
432 * Unicode 3.2 only. For Unicode 4.0 and above title boundary iteration,
433 * please use Word Boundary iterator.{@link #createWordInstance }
435 * @param where the locale.
436 * @param status The error code.
437 * @return A BreakIterator for title-breaks. The UErrorCode& status
438 * parameter is used to return status information to the user.
439 * To check whether the construction succeeded or not, you should check
440 * the value of U_SUCCESS(err). If you wish more detailed information, you
441 * can check for informational error results which still indicate success.
442 * U_USING_FALLBACK_WARNING indicates that a fall back locale was used. For
443 * example, 'de_CH' was requested, but nothing was found there, so 'de' was
444 * used. U_USING_DEFAULT_WARNING indicates that the default locale data was
445 * used; neither the requested locale nor any of its fall back locales
447 * The caller owns the returned object and is responsible for deleting it.
450 static BreakIterator
* U_EXPORT2
451 createTitleInstance(const Locale
& where
, UErrorCode
& status
);
454 * Get the set of Locales for which TextBoundaries are installed.
455 * <p><b>Note:</b> this will not return locales added through the register
456 * call. To see the registered locales too, use the getAvailableLocales
457 * function that returns a StringEnumeration object </p>
458 * @param count the output parameter of number of elements in the locale list
459 * @return available locales
462 static const Locale
* U_EXPORT2
getAvailableLocales(int32_t& count
);
465 * Get name of the object for the desired Locale, in the desired langauge.
466 * @param objectLocale must be from getAvailableLocales.
467 * @param displayLocale specifies the desired locale for output.
468 * @param name the fill-in parameter of the return value
470 * @return user-displayable name
473 static UnicodeString
& U_EXPORT2
getDisplayName(const Locale
& objectLocale
,
474 const Locale
& displayLocale
,
475 UnicodeString
& name
);
478 * Get name of the object for the desired Locale, in the langauge of the
480 * @param objectLocale must be from getMatchingLocales
481 * @param name the fill-in parameter of the return value
482 * @return user-displayable name
485 static UnicodeString
& U_EXPORT2
getDisplayName(const Locale
& objectLocale
,
486 UnicodeString
& name
);
489 * Deprecated functionality. Use clone() instead.
491 * Thread safe client-buffer-based cloning operation
492 * Do NOT call delete on a safeclone, since 'new' is not used to create it.
493 * @param stackBuffer user allocated space for the new clone. If NULL new memory will be allocated.
494 * If buffer is not large enough, new memory will be allocated.
495 * @param BufferSize reference to size of allocated space.
496 * If BufferSize == 0, a sufficient size for use in cloning will
497 * be returned ('pre-flighting')
498 * If BufferSize is not enough for a stack-based safe clone,
499 * new memory will be allocated.
500 * @param status to indicate whether the operation went on smoothly or there were errors
501 * An informational status value, U_SAFECLONE_ALLOCATED_ERROR, is used if any allocations were
503 * @return pointer to the new clone
505 * @deprecated ICU 52. Use clone() instead.
507 virtual BreakIterator
* createBufferClone(void *stackBuffer
,
509 UErrorCode
&status
) = 0;
511 #ifndef U_HIDE_DEPRECATED_API
514 * Determine whether the BreakIterator was created in user memory by
515 * createBufferClone(), and thus should not be deleted. Such objects
516 * must be closed by an explicit call to the destructor (not delete).
517 * @deprecated ICU 52. Always delete the BreakIterator.
519 inline UBool
isBufferClone(void);
521 #endif /* U_HIDE_DEPRECATED_API */
523 #if !UCONFIG_NO_SERVICE
525 * Register a new break iterator of the indicated kind, to use in the given locale.
526 * The break iterator will be adopted. Clones of the iterator will be returned
527 * if a request for a break iterator of the given kind matches or falls back to
529 * Because ICU may choose to cache BreakIterators internally, this must
530 * be called at application startup, prior to any calls to
531 * BreakIterator::createXXXInstance to avoid undefined behavior.
532 * @param toAdopt the BreakIterator instance to be adopted
533 * @param locale the Locale for which this instance is to be registered
534 * @param kind the type of iterator for which this instance is to be registered
535 * @param status the in/out status code, no special meanings are assigned
536 * @return a registry key that can be used to unregister this instance
539 static URegistryKey U_EXPORT2
registerInstance(BreakIterator
* toAdopt
,
540 const Locale
& locale
,
541 UBreakIteratorType kind
,
545 * Unregister a previously-registered BreakIterator using the key returned from the
546 * register call. Key becomes invalid after a successful call and should not be used again.
547 * The BreakIterator corresponding to the key will be deleted.
548 * Because ICU may choose to cache BreakIterators internally, this should
549 * be called during application shutdown, after all calls to
550 * BreakIterator::createXXXInstance to avoid undefined behavior.
551 * @param key the registry key returned by a previous call to registerInstance
552 * @param status the in/out status code, no special meanings are assigned
553 * @return TRUE if the iterator for the key was successfully unregistered
556 static UBool U_EXPORT2
unregister(URegistryKey key
, UErrorCode
& status
);
559 * Return a StringEnumeration over the locales available at the time of the call,
560 * including registered locales.
561 * @return a StringEnumeration over the locales available at the time of the call
564 static StringEnumeration
* U_EXPORT2
getAvailableLocales(void);
568 * Returns the locale for this break iterator. Two flavors are available: valid and
572 Locale
getLocale(ULocDataLocaleType type
, UErrorCode
& status
) const;
574 #ifndef U_HIDE_INTERNAL_API
575 /** Get the locale for this break iterator object. You can choose between valid and actual locale.
576 * @param type type of the locale we're looking for (valid or actual)
577 * @param status error code for the operation
581 const char *getLocaleID(ULocDataLocaleType type
, UErrorCode
& status
) const;
582 #endif /* U_HIDE_INTERNAL_API */
585 * Set the subject text string upon which the break iterator is operating
586 * without changing any other aspect of the matching state.
587 * The new and previous text strings must have the same content.
589 * This function is intended for use in environments where ICU is operating on
590 * strings that may move around in memory. It provides a mechanism for notifying
591 * ICU that the string has been relocated, and providing a new UText to access the
592 * string in its new position.
594 * Note that the break iterator implementation never copies the underlying text
595 * of a string being processed, but always operates directly on the original text
596 * provided by the user. Refreshing simply drops the references to the old text
597 * and replaces them with references to the new.
599 * Caution: this function is normally used only by very specialized,
600 * system-level code. One example use case is with garbage collection that moves
601 * the text in memory.
603 * @param input The new (moved) text string.
604 * @param status Receives errors detected by this function.
609 virtual BreakIterator
&refreshInputText(UText
*input
, UErrorCode
&status
) = 0;
612 static BreakIterator
* buildInstance(const Locale
& loc
, const char *type
, int32_t kind
, UErrorCode
& status
);
613 static BreakIterator
* createInstance(const Locale
& loc
, int32_t kind
, UErrorCode
& status
);
614 static BreakIterator
* makeInstance(const Locale
& loc
, int32_t kind
, UErrorCode
& status
);
616 friend class ICUBreakIteratorFactory
;
617 friend class ICUBreakIteratorService
;
620 // Do not enclose protected default/copy constructors with #ifndef U_HIDE_INTERNAL_API
621 // or else the compiler will create a public ones.
625 BreakIterator (const BreakIterator
&other
) : UObject(other
) {}
627 BreakIterator (const Locale
& valid
, const Locale
& actual
);
631 char actualLocale
[ULOC_FULLNAME_CAPACITY
];
632 char validLocale
[ULOC_FULLNAME_CAPACITY
];
635 * The assignment operator has no real implementation.
636 * It's provided to make the compiler happy. Do not call.
638 BreakIterator
& operator=(const BreakIterator
&);
641 #ifndef U_HIDE_DEPRECATED_API
643 inline UBool
BreakIterator::isBufferClone()
648 #endif /* U_HIDE_DEPRECATED_API */
652 #endif /* #if !UCONFIG_NO_BREAK_ITERATION */