/**************************************************************************
 OmegaT - Computer Assisted Translation (CAT) tool 
          with fuzzy matching, translation memory, keyword search, 
          glossaries, and translation leveraging into updated projects.

 Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Keith Godfrey, Maxym Mykhalchuk, Henry Pijffers, 
                         Benjamin Siband, and Kim Bruning
               2007 Zoltan Bartko
               2008 Andrzej Sawula, Alex Buloichik
               2008 Didier Briel
               2015 Thomas Cordonnier
               Home page: http://www.omegat.org/
               Support center: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OmegaT/

 This file is part of OmegaT.

 OmegaT is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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 OmegaT is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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 **************************************************************************/

package org.omegat.core.spellchecker;

import java.util.List;

/**
 * Interface for access to spell checker.
 * 
 * @author Alex Buloichik (alex73mail@gmail.com)
 * @author Didier Briel
 * @author Thomas Cordonnier
 */
public interface ISpellChecker {

    /** Initialize spell checker for current project. */
    void initialize();

    /** Destroy internal cache and free memory. */
    void destroy();

    /**
     * Check the word. If it is ignored or learned (valid), returns true.
     * Otherwise false.
     */
    boolean isCorrect(String word);

    /**
     * return a list of strings as suggestions
     */
    List<String> suggest(String word);

    /**
     * Add a word to the list of correct words
     */
    void learnWord(String word);

    /**
     * Add a word to the list of ignored words
     */
    void ignoreWord(String word);
}
