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using System;
namespace Monodoc.Lucene.Net.Analysis
{
	
	/// <summary>An Analyzer builds TokenStreams, which analyze text.  It thus represents a
	/// policy for extracting index terms from text.
	/// <p>
	/// Typical implementations first build a Tokenizer, which breaks the stream of
	/// characters from the Reader into raw Tokens.  One or more TokenFilters may
	/// then be applied to the output of the Tokenizer.
	/// </p>
	/// <p>
	/// WARNING: You must override one of the methods defined by this class in your
	/// subclass or the Analyzer will enter an infinite loop.
	/// </p>
	/// </summary>
	public abstract class Analyzer
	{
		/// <summary>Creates a TokenStream which tokenizes all the text in the provided
		/// Reader.  Default implementation forwards to tokenStream(Reader) for 
		/// compatibility with older version.  Override to allow Analyzer to choose 
		/// strategy based on document and/or Field.  Must be able to handle null
		/// Field name for backward compatibility. 
		/// </summary>
		public virtual TokenStream TokenStream(System.String fieldName, System.IO.TextReader reader)
		{
			// implemented for backward compatibility
			return TokenStream(reader);
		}
		
		/// <summary>Creates a TokenStream which tokenizes all the text in the provided
		/// Reader.  Provided for backward compatibility only.
		/// </summary>
		/// <deprecated> use TokenStream(String, Reader) instead.
		/// </deprecated>
		/// <seealso cref="Reader)">
		/// </seealso>
		public virtual TokenStream TokenStream(System.IO.TextReader reader)
		{
			return TokenStream(null, reader);
		}
	}
}