com.illucit.instatrie.splitter

Interface WordSplitter<T>

Type Parameters:

T - model type

All Known Implementing Classes:

StringWordSplitter, StringWordSplitter.IdentityStringWordSplitter

Functional Interface:

This is a functional interface and can therefore be used as the assignment target for a lambda expression or method reference.

@FunctionalInterface
public interface WordSplitter<T>

A word splitter constitutes a function to reduce any complex model to a set of words, which can be used to allocate the model in an indexed data structure.

Author:

Christian Simon

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Set<String>	split(T data) Split the data of a model to a set of search words that identify the model for searching in a search index. if null is returned, the model won't be indexed.

Method Detail

split

Set<String> split(T data)

Split the data of a model to a set of search words that identify the model for searching in a search index. if null is returned, the model won't be indexed.

Parameters:

data - model data

Returns:

set of search strings or null