## org.apache.lucene.analysis
Class TeeTokenFilter

    java.lang.Object
      org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenStream
          org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenFilter
              org.apache.lucene.analysis.TeeTokenFilter

    public class TeeTokenFilter

extends TokenFilter

Works in conjunction with the SinkTokenizer to provide the ability to set aside tokens that have already been analyzed. This is useful in situations where multiple fields share many common analysis steps and then go their separate ways.

It is also useful for doing things like entity extraction or proper noun analysis as part of the analysis workflow and saving off those tokens for use in another field.

    SinkTokenizer sink1 = new SinkTokenizer(null);
    SinkTokenizer sink2 = new SinkTokenizer(null);

    TokenStream source1 = new TeeTokenFilter(new TeeTokenFilter(new WhitespaceTokenizer(reader1), sink1), sink2);
    TokenStream source2 = new TeeTokenFilter(new TeeTokenFilter(new WhitespaceTokenizer(reader2), sink1), sink2);

    TokenStream final1 = new LowerCaseFilter(source1);
    TokenStream final2 = source2;
    TokenStream final3 = new EntityDetect(sink1);
    TokenStream final4 = new URLDetect(sink2);

    d.add(new Field("f1", final1));
    d.add(new Field("f2", final2));
    d.add(new Field("f3", final3));
    d.add(new Field("f4", final4));

In this example, sink1 and sink2 will both get tokens from both reader1 and reader2 after whitespace tokenizer and now we can further wrap any of these in extra analysis, and more "sources" can be inserted if desired. Note, the EntityDetect and URLDetect TokenStreams are for the example and do not currently exist in Lucene

See http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1058

See Also:
  `SinkTokenizer`

Field Summary

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

Constructor Summary
`TeeTokenFilter(TokenStream input, SinkTokenizer sink)`

Method Summary
`Token` `next(Token result)` Returns the next token in the stream, or null at EOS.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenFilter
`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

### TeeTokenFilter

    public TeeTokenFilter(TokenStream input,
                          SinkTokenizer sink)

Method Detail

### next

    public Token next(Token result)
               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:
    `result` - 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`

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