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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;

using Lucene.Net.Documents;
using Lucene.Net.Search;
using Lucene.Net.Index;

namespace Lucene.Net.Search.Vectorhighlight
{
    /// <summary>
    /// FragmentsBuilder is an interface for fragments (snippets) builder classes.
    /// A FragmentsBuilder class can be plugged in to Highlighter.
    /// </summary>
    public interface FragmentsBuilder
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// create a fragment.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="reader">IndexReader of the index</param>
        /// <param name="docId">document id to be highlighted</param>
        /// <param name="fieldName">field of the document to be highlighted</param>
        /// <param name="fieldFragList">FieldFragList object</param>
        /// <returns>a created fragment or null when no fragment created</returns>
        String CreateFragment( IndexReader reader, int docId, String fieldName, FieldFragList fieldFragList ) ;

        
        /// <summary>
        /// create multiple fragments.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="reader">IndexReader of the index</param>
        /// <param name="docId">document id to be highlighted</param>
        /// <param name="fieldName">field of the document to be highlighted</param>
        /// <param name="fieldFragList">ieldFragList object</param>
        /// <param name="maxNumFragments">maximum number of fragments</param>
        /// <returns>created fragments or null when no fragments created. Size of the array can be less than maxNumFragments</returns>
        String[] CreateFragments( IndexReader reader, int docId, String fieldName, FieldFragList fieldFragList, int maxNumFragments ) ;
    }
}