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module com { module sun { module star { module i18n {


/**
    Character conversions like case folding or Hiragana to Katakana.

    <p> Transliteration is a character to character conversion but it is
    not always a one to one mapping between characters. Transliteration
    modules are primarily used by collation, and search and replace
    modules to perform approximate search. It can also be used to format
    the numbers in different numbering systems. </p>

    <p> In order to select transliteration modules for different
    purposes, they are classified with attributes of
    TransliterationType. </p>

    <p> For Western languages there would be three transliteration
    modules available to compare two mixed case strings: upper to lower,
    lower to upper, and ignore case. </p>

    <p> A typical calling sequence of transliteration is
        <ol>
            <li> getAvailableModules() </li>
            <li> loadModulesByImplNames() </li>
            <li> equals() </li>
        </ol>
    or another one is
        <ol>
            <li> loadModule() </li>
            <li> transliterate() </li>
        </ol>
    </p>

*/

/* comment:
 * 0.
 * All the IGNORE-type functionalities (Range, equals) are based on mapping.
 * except equals() method in IGNORE_CASE, which is based on Locale-independent
 * case folding
 * ( This second assumption is very complicated and may cause confusion of use)
 *
 * 1.
 * We are assuming Upper to Lower mapping as one of transliteration.
 * The mapping depends on Locale.
 * Upper <-> Lower methods are just wrappers to provide equals() and Range()
 *
 * 2.
 * equals() in IGNORE_CASE module is locale-independent and
 * we don't provide locale-sensitive ones.
 * The reason we provided locale-independent ones is that IGNORE_CASE is mainly
 * dedicated to StarOffice internal code.
 *
 * 3.
 * TransliterationModules is used just for convenience without calling
 * getAvailableModule.
 *
 * 4.
 * Implementation name in the methods below is not the same as
 * the true implementation name registered.
 * In particular, for generic modules:"UPPERCASE_LOWERCASE",
 * "LOWERCASE_UPPERCASE", "IGNORE_CASE", there is no registered name.
 */


published interface XTransliteration: com::sun::star::uno::XInterface
{

    /** Unique ASCII name to identify a module. This name is used
        to get its localized name for menus, dialogs etc. The behavior
        is undefined for TransliterationType::CASCADE
        modules.
     */
    string  getName();

    /** Return the attribute(s) associated with this transliteration
        object, as defined in TransliterationType. The
        value is determined by the transliteration modules. For example,
        for UPPERCASE_LOWERCASE, a ONE_TO_ONE is returned, for
        IGNORE_CASE, IGNORE is returned.
     */
    short   getType();

    /** Load instance of predefined module - old style method.
     */
    void    loadModule( [in] TransliterationModules eModType,
                        [in] ::com::sun::star::lang::Locale aLocale );

    /** Load a sequence of instances of predefined modules - supersedes
        method XTransliteration::loadModule().
     */
    void    loadModuleNew(  [in] sequence <TransliterationModulesNew> aModType,
                            [in] ::com::sun::star::lang::Locale aLocale );

    /** Load instance of UNO registered module.

        <p> Each transliteration module is registered under a different
        service name. The convention for the service name is
        com.sun.star.i18n.Transliteration.l10n.{implName}. The
        {implName} is a unique name used to identify a module. The
        implName is used to get a localized name for the transliteration
        module. The implName is used in locale data to list the
        available transliteration modules for the locale. There are some
        transliteration modules that are always available. The names of
        those modules are listed as enum
        TransliterationModules names. For modules not
        listed there it is possible to load them directly by their
        implName.

        @param aImplName
            The module's {implName} under which it is registered with
            com.sun.star.i18n.Transliteration.l10n.{implName}.
        @param aLocale
            The locale for which the module is requested.
     */
    void    loadModuleByImplName(   [in] string aImplName,
                                    [in] ::com::sun::star::lang::Locale aLocale );

    /** Load a sequence of instances of transliteration modules.
        Output of one module is fed as input to the next module in
        the sequence. The object created by this call has
        TransliterationType CASCADE and IGNORE types.

        @param aImplNameList
            Only IGNORE type modules can be specified.
        @param aLocale
            The locale for which the modules are requested.
    */
    void    loadModulesByImplNames( [in] sequence <string> aImplNameList,
                                    [in] ::com::sun::star::lang::Locale aLocale );

    /** List the available transliteration modules for a given locale.
        It can be filtered based on its type.

        @param nType
            A bitmask field of values defined in
            TransliterationType
        @param aLocale
            The locale for which the modules are requested.
    */
    sequence<string>    getAvailableModules(
                            [in] ::com::sun::star::lang::Locale aLocale,
                            [in] short nType );


    /** Transliterate a substring. This method can be called if the
        object doesn't have TransliterationType IGNORE
        attribute.

        @param aInStr
            The input string.

        @param nStartPos
            Start position within aInStr from where transliteration starts.

        @param nCount
            Number of code points to be transliterated.

        @param rOffset
            To find the grapheme of input string corresponding to the
            grapheme of output string, rOffset provides the offset array
            whose index is the offset of output string, the element
            containing the position within the input string before
            transliteration.
     */
    string  transliterate(  [in] string aInStr, [in] long nStartPos,
                            [in] long nCount, [out] sequence <long> rOffset );

    /** @deprecated
        For internal use, this method is supported to get the
        "transliteration", which equals() is based on.
     */
    string  folding(    [in] string aInStr, [in] long nStartPos,
                        [in] long nCount, [out] sequence <long> rOffset );

    /** Match two substrings and find if they are equivalent as per this
        transliteration.

        <p> This method can be called if the object has
        TransliterationType IGNORE attribute. </p>

        <p> Returns the number of matched code points in any case, even if
        strings are not equal, for example: <br>
        equals( "a", 0, 1, nMatch1, "aaa", 0, 3, nMatch2 ) <br>
        returns `FALSE` and nMatch:=1 and nMatch2:=1 <br>
        equals( "aab", 0, 3, nMatch1, "aaa", 0, 3, nMatch2 ) <br>
        returns `FALSE` and nMatch:=2 and nMatch2:=2 <br> </p>

        @param aStr1
            First string to match.

        @param nPos1
            Start position within aStr1.

        @param nCount1
            Number of code points to use of aStr1.

        @param rMatch1
            Returns number of matched code points in aStr1.

        @param aStr2
            Second string to match.

        @param nPos2
            Start position within aStr2.

        @param nCount2
            Number of code points to use of aStr2.

        @param rMatch2
            Returns number of matched code points in aStr2.

        @returns
            `TRUE` if the substrings are equal per this
            transliteration <br>
            `FALSE` else.
     */

    boolean equals( [in] string aStr1, [in] long nPos1, [in] long nCount1,
                    [out] long rMatch1,
                    [in] string aStr2, [in] long nPos2, [in] long nCount2,
                    [out] long rMatch2 );

    /** Transliterate one set of characters to another.

        <p> This method is intended for getting corresponding ranges and
        can be called if the object has TransliterationType
        IGNORE attribute. </p>

        <p> For example: generic CASE_IGNORE transliterateRange( "a", "i" )
        returns {"A","I","a","i"}, transliterateRange( "a", "a" )
        returns {"A","A","a","a"}. </p>

        <p> Use this transliteration to create regular expressions like
        [a-i] --> [A-Ia-i]. </p>

        @returns
            String sequence containing corresponding transliterated
            pairs of characters to represent a range.
     */
    sequence <string>   transliterateRange( [in] string aStr1, [in] string aStr2 );

    /** Compare 2 substrings as per this transliteration. It translates both
        substrings before comparing them.

        @param aStr1
            First string.

        @param nOff1
            Offset (from 0) of the first substring.

        @param nLen1
            Length (from offset) of the first substring.

        @param aStr2
            Second string.

        @param nOff2
            Offset (from 0) of the second substring.

        @param nLen2
            Length (from offset) of the second substring.

        @returns
            1 if the first substring is greater than the second substring <br>
            0 if the first substring is equal to the second substring <br>
            -1 if the first substring is less than the second substring
    */
    long    compareSubstring(   [in] string aStr1, [in] long nOff1, [in] long nLen1,
                                [in] string aStr2, [in] long nOff2, [in] long nLen2 );

    /** Compare 2 strings as per this transliteration. It translates both
        strings before comparing them.

        @returns
            1 if the first string is greater than the second string <br>
            0 if the first string is equal to the second string <br>
            -1 if the first string is less than the second string
    */
    long    compareString( [in] string aStr1, [in] string aStr2 );

};

}; }; }; };

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