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namespace Lucene.Net.Analysis.TokenAttributes
{
    using System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis;

    /// <summary>
    /// A <see cref="Token"/>'s lexical type. The default value is 'word'.
    /// </summary>
    [SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Naming", "CA1711:IdentifiersShouldNotHaveIncorrectSuffix",
        Justification = "The class was called Attribute in Java. It would be fun to call it Annotation. However, " +
        "its probably best to try to honor the correlating names when possible.")]
    public interface ITypeAttribute
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the <see cref="Token"/>'s lexical type.
        /// </summary>
        /// <value>The type.</value>
       string Type { get; set; }
    }
}