Class 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 Detail

      • AbstractPunctuationCheckRule

        public AbstractPunctuationCheckRule​(java.util.ResourceBundle messages)
    • Method Detail

      • getId

        public java.lang.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 java.lang.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​(java.lang.String tokens)
      • isPunctuation

        protected abstract boolean isPunctuation​(java.lang.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