org.daisy.dotify.api.hyphenator

Interface HyphenatorFactoryMakerService

All Known Implementing Classes:

HyphenatorFactoryMaker

public interface HyphenatorFactoryMakerService

Provides an interface for a HyphenatorFactoryMaker service. The purpose of this interface is to expose an implementation of a HyphenatorFactoryMaker as an OSGi service.

To comply with this interface, an implementation must be thread safe and address both the possibility that only a single instance is created and used throughout and that new instances are created as desired.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Collection<String>	listLocales() Returns a list of supported locales as defined by IETF RFC 3066.
HyphenatorFactory	newFactory(String target) Gets a HyphenatorFactory that supports the specified locale
HyphenatorInterface	newHyphenator(String target) Creates a new hyphenator.

Method Detail

newFactory

HyphenatorFactory newFactory(String target)
                      throws HyphenatorConfigurationException

Gets a HyphenatorFactory that supports the specified locale

Parameters:

target - the target locale

Returns:

returns a hyphenator factory for the specified locale

Throws:

HyphenatorConfigurationException - if the locale is not supported

newHyphenator

HyphenatorInterface newHyphenator(String target)
                           throws HyphenatorConfigurationException

Creates a new hyphenator. This is a convenience method for getFactory(target).newHyphenator(target). Using this method excludes the possibility of setting features of the hyphenator factory.

Parameters:

target - the target locale

Returns:

returns a new hyphenator

Throws:

HyphenatorConfigurationException - if the locale is not supported

listLocales

Collection<String> listLocales()

Returns a list of supported locales as defined by IETF RFC 3066.

Returns:

returns a list of locales