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package org.thdl.tib.scanner;
import java.io.*;

/** Specifies a generic interface to access and process a subset of 
    dictionaries among a set of dictionaries.

    @author Andrés Montano Pellegrini
*/
public abstract class DictionarySource
{
	public static String[] defTags;
	static
	{
		defTags=null;
	}
	
	public static void setTags(String tags[])
	{
		defTags = tags;
	}
	
	/** Get the tag or tags associated to definition number i. */
	public abstract String getTag(int i);
    
    /** Marks all dictionaries as unselected */
    public abstract void reset();
            
    /** Returns an instance of DictionarySource marking as selected all dictionaries
        that were selected in both the current and dsO. */
    public abstract DictionarySource intersection(DictionarySource dsO);
    
    /** Returns true if no dictionaries are selected. */
    public abstract boolean isEmpty();

    /** Writes the dictionary information to a random access file. */
    public abstract void print(boolean hasNext, DataOutput raf) throws IOException;
    
    /** Reads the dictionary information from a random access file, according
        to the way it was written with @print. */
    public abstract void read(DataInput raf) throws IOException;
    
    /** Returns the number of definitions available. */
    public abstract int countDefs();
    
    /** Returns true if the node has brothers. This is used by @FileSyllableListTree. */
    public abstract boolean hasBrothers();
    
    /** Returns true if dict is a selected dictionary. */
    public abstract boolean contains(int dict);    
}