org.crosswire.jsword.book.search.basic
Class NullThesaurus

java.lang.Object
  org.crosswire.jsword.book.search.basic.NullThesaurus

All Implemented Interfaces:

Thesaurus

public class NullThesaurus
extends Object
implements Thesaurus

An implementation of Thesaurus that simply returns the word that the user wanted similies of. Useful if there is no other source of similarity data.

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Version:

$Id: NullThesaurus.java,v 1.1 2004/09/29 22:21:23 joe Exp $

Author:

Joe Walker [joe at eireneh dot com]

See Also:

Licence

Constructor Summary

NullThesaurus()

Method Summary

Collection

getSynonyms(String word) Return an array of words that are used by this Bible that start with the given string.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

NullThesaurus

public NullThesaurus()

Method Detail

getSynonyms

public Collection getSynonyms(String word)
                       throws BookException

Description copied from interface: Thesaurus

Return an array of words that are used by this Bible that start with the given string. For example calling: getStartsWith("love") will return something like: { "love", "loves", "lover", "lovely", ... }

Specified by:

getSynonyms in interface Thesaurus

Parameters:

word - The word to base your word array on

Returns:

An array of words starting with the base

Throws:

BookException