## org.apache.lucene.analysis.shingle
Class ShingleFilter

    java.lang.Object
      org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenStream
          org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenFilter
              org.apache.lucene.analysis.shingle.ShingleFilter

    public class ShingleFilter

extends TokenFilter

A ShingleFilter constructs shingles (token n-grams) from a token stream. In other words, it creates combinations of tokens as a single token.

For example, the sentence "please divide this sentence into shingles" might be tokenized into shingles "please divide", "divide this", "this sentence", "sentence into", and "into shingles".

This filter handles position increments > 1 by inserting filler tokens (tokens with termtext "_"). It does not handle a position increment of 0.

Field Summary
`static int` `DEFAULT_MAX_SHINGLE_SIZE` default maximum shingle size is 2.
`static char[]` `FILLER_TOKEN` filler token for when positionIncrement is more than 1
`static String` `TOKEN_SEPARATOR` The string to use when joining adjacent tokens to form a shingle

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

Constructor Summary
`ShingleFilter(TokenStream input)` Construct a ShingleFilter with default shingle size.
`ShingleFilter(TokenStream input, int maxShingleSize)` Constructs a ShingleFilter with the specified single size from the TokenStream `input`
`ShingleFilter(TokenStream input, String tokenType)` Construct a ShingleFilter with the specified token type for shingle tokens.

Method Summary
`Token` `next(Token reusableToken)` Returns the next token in the stream, or null at EOS.
`void` `setMaxShingleSize(int maxShingleSize)` Set the max shingle size (default: 2)
`void` `setOutputUnigrams(boolean outputUnigrams)` Shall the output stream contain the input tokens (unigrams) as well as shingles? (default: true.)
`void` `setTokenType(String tokenType)` Set the type of the shingle tokens produced by this filter.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenFilter
`close, reset`

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

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

Field Detail

### FILLER_TOKEN

    public static final char[] FILLER_TOKEN

  filler token for when positionIncrement is more than 1

### DEFAULT_MAX_SHINGLE_SIZE

    public static final int DEFAULT_MAX_SHINGLE_SIZE

  default maximum shingle size is 2.

  See Also:
    Constant Field Values

### TOKEN_SEPARATOR

    public static final String TOKEN_SEPARATOR

  The string to use when joining adjacent tokens to form a shingle

  See Also:
    Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

### ShingleFilter

    public ShingleFilter(TokenStream input,
                         int maxShingleSize)

  Constructs a ShingleFilter with the specified single size from the TokenStream `input`

  Parameters:
    `input` - input stream
    `maxShingleSize` - maximum shingle size produced by the filter.

### ShingleFilter

    public ShingleFilter(TokenStream input)

  Construct a ShingleFilter with default shingle size.

  Parameters:
    `input` - input stream

### ShingleFilter

    public ShingleFilter(TokenStream input,
                         String tokenType)

  Construct a ShingleFilter with the specified token type for shingle tokens.

  Parameters:
    `input` - input stream
    `tokenType` - token type for shingle tokens

Method Detail

### setTokenType

    public void setTokenType(String tokenType)

  Set the type of the shingle tokens produced by this filter. (default: "shingle")

  Parameters:
    `tokenType` - token tokenType

### setOutputUnigrams

    public void setOutputUnigrams(boolean outputUnigrams)

  Shall the output stream contain the input tokens (unigrams) as well as shingles? (default: true.)

  Parameters:
    `outputUnigrams` - Whether or not the output stream shall contain the input tokens (unigrams)

### setMaxShingleSize

    public void setMaxShingleSize(int maxShingleSize)

  Set the max shingle size (default: 2)

  Parameters:
    `maxShingleSize` - max size of output shingles

### next

    public Token next(Token reusableToken)
               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
  Also, the producer must make no assumptions about a Token after it has been returned: the caller may arbitrarily change it. If the producer needs to hold onto the token for subsequent calls, it must clone() it before storing it. Note that a `TokenFilter` is considered a consumer.

  Overrides:
    `next` in class `TokenStream`
  Parameters:
    `reusableToken` - a Token that may or may not be used to return; this parameter should never be null (the callee is not required to check for null before using it, but it is a good idea to assert that it is not null.)
  Returns:
    next token in the stream or null if end-of-stream was hit
  Throws:
    `IOException`

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