package org.apache.lucene.analysis;
/**
* Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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*/
import java.io.IOException;
/** A TokenStream enumerates the sequence of tokens, either from
fields of a document or from query text.
<p>
This is an abstract class. Concrete subclasses are:
<ul>
<li>{@link Tokenizer}, a TokenStream
whose input is a Reader; and
<li>{@link TokenFilter}, a TokenStream
whose input is another TokenStream.
</ul>
*/
public abstract class TokenStream {
/** Returns the next token in the stream, or null at EOS. */
public abstract Token next() throws IOException;
/** Releases resources associated with this stream. */
public void close() throws IOException {}
}
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