SpecialTokenRegistry (linguistics 7.532.27 API)

java.lang.Object
- com.yahoo.language.process.SpecialTokenRegistry

```
public class SpecialTokenRegistry
extends Object
```
Immutable named lists of "special tokens" - strings which should override the normal tokenizer semantics and be tokenized into a single token.

Author:

bratseth

Constructor Summary

Constructors
Constructor	Description
`SpecialTokenRegistry()`	Creates an empty special token registry
`SpecialTokenRegistry(com.yahoo.vespa.configdefinition.SpecialtokensConfig config)`	Create a special token registry from a configuration object.
`SpecialTokenRegistry(List<SpecialTokens> specialTokensList)`

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Concrete Methods
Modifier and Type Method Description

SpecialTokens getSpecialTokens(String name)
Returns the list of special tokens for a given name.
- Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
  clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

- Constructor Detail
  - SpecialTokenRegistry
```
public SpecialTokenRegistry()
```
    Creates an empty special token registry
  - SpecialTokenRegistry
```
public SpecialTokenRegistry(com.yahoo.vespa.configdefinition.SpecialtokensConfig config)
```
    Create a special token registry from a configuration object.
  - SpecialTokenRegistry
```
public SpecialTokenRegistry(List<SpecialTokens> specialTokensList)
```
- Method Detail
  - getSpecialTokens
```
public SpecialTokens getSpecialTokens(String name)
```
    Returns the list of special tokens for a given name.
    
    Parameters:
    
    name - the name of the special tokens to return null, the empty string or the string "default" returns the default ones
    
    Returns:
    
    a read-only list of SpecialToken instances, an empty list if this name has no special tokens