org.apache.lucene.search.uhighlight

## Class PassageFormatter

- java.lang.Object
- - org.apache.lucene.search.uhighlight.PassageFormatter

- Direct Known Subclasses:
    DefaultPassageFormatter

      public abstract class PassageFormatter
      extends Object

  Creates a formatted snippet from the top passages.
  WARNING: This API is experimental and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.

- - ### Constructor Summary

    Constructors
    Constructor and Description
    `PassageFormatter()`

  - ### Method Summary

    All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
    Modifier and Type | Method and Description
    --- | ---
    `abstract Object` | `format(Passage[] passages, String content)` Formats the top `passages` from `content` into a human-readable text snippet.

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

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

- - ### Constructor Detail

    - #### PassageFormatter

          public PassageFormatter()

  - ### Method Detail

    - #### format

          public abstract Object format(Passage[] passages,
                                        String content)

      Formats the top `passages` from `content` into a human-readable text snippet.
      Parameters:
        `passages` - top-N passages for the field. Note these are sorted in the order that they appear in the document for convenience.
        `content` - content for the field.
      Returns:
        formatted highlight. Note that for the non-expert APIs in `UnifiedHighlighter` that return String, the toString method on the Object returned by this method is used to compute the string.

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