Class AbstractPunctuationCheckRule

java.lang.Object
org.languagetool.rules.Rule
org.languagetool.rules.AbstractPunctuationCheckRule

public abstract class AbstractPunctuationCheckRule extends Rule
A rule that matches "..", "::", "-," but not "...", "!..", "?!!", ",-" etc. Languages will have to subclass it and override isPunctsJoinOk() and isPunctuation() to provide language-specific checking
  • Constructor Details

    • AbstractPunctuationCheckRule

      public AbstractPunctuationCheckRule(ResourceBundle messages)
  • Method Details

    • getId

      public String getId()
      Description copied from class: Rule
      A string used to identify the rule in e.g. configuration files. This string is supposed to be unique and to stay the same in all upcoming versions of LanguageTool. It's supposed to contain only the characters A-Z and the underscore.
      Specified by:
      getId in class Rule
    • getDescription

      public String getDescription()
      Description copied from class: Rule
      A short description of the error this rule can detect, usually in the language of the text that is checked.
      Specified by:
      getDescription in class Rule
    • isPunctsJoinOk

      protected abstract boolean isPunctsJoinOk(String tokens)
    • isPunctuation

      protected abstract boolean isPunctuation(String token)
    • match

      public RuleMatch[] match(AnalyzedSentence sentence)
      Description copied from class: Rule
      Check whether the given sentence matches this error rule, i.e. whether it contains the error detected by this rule. Note that the order in which this method is called is not always guaranteed, i.e. the sentence order in the text may be different than the order in which you get the sentences (this may be the case when LanguageTool is used as a LibreOffice/OpenOffice add-on, for example).
      Specified by:
      match in class Rule
      Parameters:
      sentence - a pre-analyzed sentence
      Returns:
      an array of RuleMatch objects