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      1 //  2016 and later: Unicode, Inc. and others.
      2 // License & terms of use: http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html
      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 /**
     18  * \file
     19  * \brief C++ API: UnicodeReplacer
     20  */
     21 
     22 U_NAMESPACE_BEGIN
     23 
     24 class Replaceable;
     25 class UnicodeString;
     26 class UnicodeSet;
     27 
     28 /**
     29  * <code>UnicodeReplacer</code> defines a protocol for objects that
     30  * replace a range of characters in a Replaceable string with output
     31  * text.  The replacement is done via the Replaceable API so as to
     32  * preserve out-of-band data.
     33  *
     34  * <p>This is a mixin class.
     35  * @author Alan Liu
     36  * @stable ICU 2.4
     37  */
     38 class U_I18N_API UnicodeReplacer /* not : public UObject because this is an interface/mixin class */ {
     39 
     40  public:
     41 
     42     /**
     43      * Destructor.
     44      * @stable ICU 2.4
     45      */
     46     virtual ~UnicodeReplacer();
     47 
     48     /**
     49      * Replace characters in 'text' from 'start' to 'limit' with the
     50      * output text of this object.  Update the 'cursor' parameter to
     51      * give the cursor position and return the length of the
     52      * replacement text.
     53      *
     54      * @param text the text to be matched
     55      * @param start inclusive start index of text to be replaced
     56      * @param limit exclusive end index of text to be replaced;
     57      * must be greater than or equal to start
     58      * @param cursor output parameter for the cursor position.
     59      * Not all replacer objects will update this, but in a complete
     60      * tree of replacer objects, representing the entire output side
     61      * of a transliteration rule, at least one must update it.
     62      * @return the number of 16-bit code units in the text replacing
     63      * the characters at offsets start..(limit-1) in text
     64      * @stable ICU 2.4
     65      */
     66     virtual int32_t replace(Replaceable& text,
     67                             int32_t start,
     68                             int32_t limit,
     69                             int32_t& cursor) = 0;
     70 
     71     /**
     72      * Returns a string representation of this replacer.  If the
     73      * result of calling this function is passed to the appropriate
     74      * parser, typically TransliteratorParser, it will produce another
     75      * replacer that is equal to this one.
     76      * @param result the string to receive the pattern.  Previous
     77      * contents will be deleted.
     78      * @param escapeUnprintable if TRUE then convert unprintable
     79      * character to their hex escape representations, \\uxxxx or
     80      * \\Uxxxxxxxx.  Unprintable characters are defined by
     81      * Utility.isUnprintable().
     82      * @return a reference to 'result'.
     83      * @stable ICU 2.4
     84      */
     85     virtual UnicodeString& toReplacerPattern(UnicodeString& result,
     86                                              UBool escapeUnprintable) const = 0;
     87 
     88     /**
     89      * Union the set of all characters that may output by this object
     90      * into the given set.
     91      * @param toUnionTo the set into which to union the output characters
     92      * @stable ICU 2.4
     93      */
     94     virtual void addReplacementSetTo(UnicodeSet& toUnionTo) const = 0;
     95 };
     96 
     97 U_NAMESPACE_END
     98 
     99 #endif
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