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-// Copyright Yahoo. Licensed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license. See LICENSE in the project root.
-package com.yahoo.language.process;
-
-import com.yahoo.language.Language;
-import com.yahoo.tensor.Tensor;
-import com.yahoo.tensor.TensorType;
-
-import java.util.List;
-
-/**
- * An encoder converts a text string to a tensor or list of tokens
- *
- * @author bratseth
- */
-public interface Encoder {
-
-    /** An instance of this which throws IllegalStateException if attempted used */
-    Encoder throwsOnUse = new FailingEncoder();
-
-    /**
-     * Encodes text into tokens in a list of ids.
-     *
-     * @param text the text to encode
-     * @param language the language of the text, or UNKNOWN to use language independent encoding
-     * @return the text encoded to a list of segment ids
-     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the language is not supported by this encoder
-     */
-    List<Integer> encode(String text, Language language);
-
-    /**
-     * Encodes text into tokens in a tensor.
-     * The information contained in the encoding may depend on the tensor type.
-     *
-     * @param text the text to encode
-     * @param language the language of the text, or UNKNOWN to use language independent encoding
-     * @param tensorType the type of the ttensor to be returned
-     * @return the tex encoded into a tensor of the supplied type
-     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the language or tensor type is not supported by this encoder
-     */
-    Tensor encode(String text, Language language, TensorType tensorType);
-
-    class FailingEncoder implements Encoder {
-
-        @Override
-        public List<Integer> encode(String text, Language language) {
-            throw new IllegalStateException("No encoder has been configured");
-        }
-
-        @Override
-        public Tensor encode(String text, Language language, TensorType tensorType) {
-            throw new IllegalStateException("No encoder has been configured");
-        }
-
-    }
-
-}