// AbstractToken.java 
// ---------
// part of YaCy
// (C) by Michael Peter Christen; mc@yacy.net
// first published on http://www.anomic.de
// Frankfurt, Germany, 2007
// Created 22.02.2007
//
// This file is contributed by Franz Brausze
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package de.anomic.data.wiki.tokens;

import de.anomic.data.wiki.wikiParserException;

public abstract class AbstractToken implements Token {
	
    protected String text = null;
    protected String markup = null;
    protected boolean parsed = false;

    protected abstract void parse() throws wikiParserException;

    public String getMarkup() throws wikiParserException {
        if (this.text == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException();
        }
        if (!this.parsed) {
            parse();
        }
        return this.markup;
    }
	
    public String getText() {
        return this.text;
    }
	
    @Override
    public String toString() {
        try {
            return getMarkup();
        } catch (final wikiParserException e) {
            return null;
        }
    }
}