java/com/android/dialer/smartdial/SmartDialMap.java

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 * Copyright (C) 2016 The Android Open Source Project
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package com.android.dialer.smartdial;

/**
 * Note: These methods currently take characters as arguments. For future planned language support,
 * they will need to be changed to use codepoints instead of characters.
 *
 * <p>http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#codePointAt(int)
 *
 * <p>If/when this change is made, LatinSmartDialMap(which operates on chars) will continue to work
 * by simply casting from a codepoint to a character.
 */
public interface SmartDialMap {

  /*
   * Returns true if the provided character can be mapped to a key on the dialpad
   */
  boolean isValidDialpadCharacter(char ch);

  /*
   * Returns true if the provided character is a letter, and can be mapped to a key on the dialpad
   */
  boolean isValidDialpadAlphabeticChar(char ch);

  /*
   * Returns true if the provided character is a digit, and can be mapped to a key on the dialpad
   */
  boolean isValidDialpadNumericChar(char ch);

  /*
   * Get the index of the key on the dialpad which the character corresponds to
   */
  byte getDialpadIndex(char ch);

  /*
   * Get the actual numeric character on the dialpad which the character corresponds to
   */
  char getDialpadNumericCharacter(char ch);

  /*
   * Converts uppercase characters to lower case ones, and on a best effort basis, strips accents
   * from accented characters.
   */
  char normalizeCharacter(char ch);
}