## org.apache.lucene.analysis
Class CharTokenizer

    java.lang.Object
      org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenStream
          org.apache.lucene.analysis.Tokenizer
              org.apache.lucene.analysis.CharTokenizer

Direct Known Subclasses:
  LetterTokenizer, WhitespaceTokenizer

    public abstract class CharTokenizer

extends Tokenizer

An abstract base class for simple, character-oriented tokenizers.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.apache.lucene.analysis.Tokenizer
`input`

Constructor Summary
`CharTokenizer(Reader input)`

Method Summary
`protected abstract boolean` `isTokenChar(char c)` Returns true iff a character should be included in a token.
`Token` `next(Token token)` Returns the next token in the stream, or null at EOS.
`protected char` `normalize(char c)` Called on each token character to normalize it before it is added to the token.
`void` `reset(Reader input)` Expert: Reset the tokenizer to a new reader.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.lucene.analysis.Tokenizer
`close`

Methods inherited from class org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenStream
`next, reset`

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
`clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait`

Constructor Detail

### CharTokenizer

    public CharTokenizer(Reader input)

Method Detail

### isTokenChar

    protected abstract boolean isTokenChar(char c)

  Returns true iff a character should be included in a token. This tokenizer generates as tokens adjacent sequences of characters which satisfy this predicate. Characters for which this is false are used to define token boundaries and are not included in tokens.

### normalize

    protected char normalize(char c)

  Called on each token character to normalize it before it is added to the token. The default implementation does nothing. Subclasses may use this to, e.g., lowercase tokens.

### next

    public final Token next(Token token)
                     throws IOException

  Description copied from class: `TokenStream`
  Returns the next token in the stream, or null at EOS. When possible, the input Token should be used as the returned Token (this gives fastest tokenization performance), but this is not required and a new Token may be returned. Callers may re-use a single Token instance for successive calls to this method.

  This implicitly defines a "contract" between consumers (callers of this method) and producers (implementations of this method that are the source for tokens):

  - A consumer must fully consume the previously returned Token before calling this method again.
  - A producer must call `Token.clear()` before setting the fields in it & returning it
  Note that a `TokenFilter` is considered a consumer.

  Overrides:
    `next` in class `TokenStream`
  Parameters:
    `token` - a Token that may or may not be used to return
  Returns:
    next token in the stream or null if end-of-stream was hit
  Throws:
    `IOException`

### reset

    public void reset(Reader input)
               throws IOException

  Description copied from class: `Tokenizer`
  Expert: Reset the tokenizer to a new reader. Typically, an analyzer (in its reusableTokenStream method) will use this to re-use a previously created tokenizer.

  Overrides:
    `reset` in class `Tokenizer`
  Throws:
    `IOException`

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