org.apache.lucene.search.highlight

## Class SimpleFragmenter

- java.lang.Object
- - org.apache.lucene.search.highlight.SimpleFragmenter

All Implemented Interfaces:
  Fragmenter

    public class SimpleFragmenter
    extends Object
    implements Fragmenter

`Fragmenter` implementation which breaks text up into same-size fragments with no concerns over spotting sentence boundaries.

### Constructor Summary

Constructors
Constructor and Description
`SimpleFragmenter()`
`SimpleFragmenter(int fragmentSize)`

### Method Summary

Methods
`int` `getFragmentSize()`
`boolean` `isNewFragment()` Test to see if this token from the stream should be held in a new TextFragment.
`void` `setFragmentSize(int size)`
`void` `start(String originalText, TokenStream stream)` Initializes the Fragmenter.

### Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

`clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait`

### Constructor Detail

#### SimpleFragmenter

    public SimpleFragmenter()

#### SimpleFragmenter

    public SimpleFragmenter(int fragmentSize)

Parameters:
  `fragmentSize` - size in number of characters of each fragment

### Method Detail

#### start

    public void start(String originalText,
             TokenStream stream)

Description copied from interface: `Fragmenter`
Initializes the Fragmenter. You can grab references to the Attributes you are interested in from tokenStream and then access the values in `Fragmenter.isNewFragment()`.

Specified by:
  `start` in interface `Fragmenter`
Parameters:
  `originalText` - the original source text
  `stream` - the `TokenStream` to be fragmented

#### isNewFragment

    public boolean isNewFragment()

Description copied from interface: `Fragmenter`
Test to see if this token from the stream should be held in a new TextFragment. Every time this is called, the TokenStream passed to start(String, TokenStream) will have been incremented.

Specified by:
  `isNewFragment` in interface `Fragmenter`

#### getFragmentSize

    public int getFragmentSize()

Returns:
  size in number of characters of each fragment

#### setFragmentSize

    public void setFragmentSize(int size)

Parameters:
  `size` - size in characters of each fragment