Jouni's Incremental BWT integrated into TextCollection

[SXSI/TextCollection.git] / TextCollection.h

diff --git a/TextCollection.h b/TextCollection.h
index f41084d..dad5c88 100644 (file)
--- a/TextCollection.h
+++ b/TextCollection.h
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 
 namespace SXSI
 {
+
     /**
      * General interface for a text collection
      *
@@ -44,12 +45,6 @@ namespace SXSI
         // Type for text position (FIXME ulong or long?)
         typedef ulong TextPosition;
 
-        /**
-         * Init an instance of a text collection object
-         *
-         * Returns a pointer to an object implementing this interface.
-         */
-        static TextCollection * InitTextCollection(unsigned samplerate = TEXTCOLLECTION_DEFAULT_SAMPLERATE);
         /**
          * Load from a file
          *
@@ -59,38 +54,23 @@ namespace SXSI
          * Throws an exception if std::fread() fails.
          * 
          */
-        virtual void Load(FILE *, unsigned samplerate = 0) = 0;
+        static TextCollection* Load(FILE *, unsigned samplerate = 0);
+
         /**
          * Save data structure into a file
          * 
          * Throws an exception if std::fwrite() fails.
          */
         virtual void Save(FILE *) const = 0;
+
         /**
          * Virtual destructor
          */
         virtual ~TextCollection() { };
-        /** 
-         * Insert text
-         *
-         * Must be a zero-terminated string from alphabet [1,255].
-         * Can not be called after makeStatic().
-         * The i'th text insertion gets an identifier value i-1.
-         * In other words, document identifiers start from 0.
-         */
-        virtual void InsertText(uchar const *) = 0;
-        /**
-         * Make static
-         *
-         * Convert to a static collection; reduces space and time complexities.
-         * New texts can not be inserted after this operation.
-         */
-        virtual void MakeStatic() = 0;
-       
+
        /**
-          tests if the string pointed to by DocId is empty
-        */
-       
+        * Tests if the string pointed to by DocId is empty
+         */
        virtual bool EmptyText(DocId) const = 0;
 
         /**
@@ -198,7 +178,7 @@ namespace SXSI
         virtual full_result FullContains(uchar const *, DocId, DocId) const = 0;
 
     protected:
-        // Protected constructor; call the static function InitTextCollection().
+        // Protected constructor; use TextCollectionBuilder
         TextCollection() { };
 
         // No copy constructor or assignment