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3/*
4**********************************************************************
5* Copyright (c) 2002-2005, International Business Machines Corporation
6* and others. All Rights Reserved.
7**********************************************************************
8* Date Name Description
9* 01/14/2002 aliu Creation.
10**********************************************************************
11*/
12#ifndef UNIREPL_H
13#define UNIREPL_H
14
15#include "unicode/utypes.h"
16
17#if U_SHOW_CPLUSPLUS_API
18
19/**
20 * \file
21 * \brief C++ API: UnicodeReplacer
22 */
23
24U_NAMESPACE_BEGIN
25
26class Replaceable;
27class UnicodeString;
28class UnicodeSet;
29
30/**
31 * <code>UnicodeReplacer</code> defines a protocol for objects that
32 * replace a range of characters in a Replaceable string with output
33 * text. The replacement is done via the Replaceable API so as to
34 * preserve out-of-band data.
35 *
36 * <p>This is a mixin class.
37 * @author Alan Liu
38 * @stable ICU 2.4
39 */
40class U_I18N_API UnicodeReplacer /* not : public UObject because this is an interface/mixin class */ {
41
42 public:
43
44 /**
45 * Destructor.
46 * @stable ICU 2.4
47 */
48 virtual ~UnicodeReplacer();
49
50 /**
51 * Replace characters in 'text' from 'start' to 'limit' with the
52 * output text of this object. Update the 'cursor' parameter to
53 * give the cursor position and return the length of the
54 * replacement text.
55 *
56 * @param text the text to be matched
57 * @param start inclusive start index of text to be replaced
58 * @param limit exclusive end index of text to be replaced;
59 * must be greater than or equal to start
60 * @param cursor output parameter for the cursor position.
61 * Not all replacer objects will update this, but in a complete
62 * tree of replacer objects, representing the entire output side
63 * of a transliteration rule, at least one must update it.
64 * @return the number of 16-bit code units in the text replacing
65 * the characters at offsets start..(limit-1) in text
66 * @stable ICU 2.4
67 */
68 virtual int32_t replace(Replaceable& text,
69 int32_t start,
70 int32_t limit,
71 int32_t& cursor) = 0;
72
73 /**
74 * Returns a string representation of this replacer. If the
75 * result of calling this function is passed to the appropriate
76 * parser, typically TransliteratorParser, it will produce another
77 * replacer that is equal to this one.
78 * @param result the string to receive the pattern. Previous
79 * contents will be deleted.
80 * @param escapeUnprintable if TRUE then convert unprintable
81 * character to their hex escape representations, \\uxxxx or
82 * \\Uxxxxxxxx. Unprintable characters are defined by
83 * Utility.isUnprintable().
84 * @return a reference to 'result'.
85 * @stable ICU 2.4
86 */
87 virtual UnicodeString& toReplacerPattern(UnicodeString& result,
88 UBool escapeUnprintable) const = 0;
89
90 /**
91 * Union the set of all characters that may output by this object
92 * into the given set.
93 * @param toUnionTo the set into which to union the output characters
94 * @stable ICU 2.4
95 */
96 virtual void addReplacementSetTo(UnicodeSet& toUnionTo) const = 0;
97};
98
99U_NAMESPACE_END
100
101#endif /* U_SHOW_CPLUSPLUS_API */
102
103#endif
104