New API Proposal

libpinyin 0.9.x New API Proposal

Objective

• almost pure C API;

• expose methods in class PhraseItem;

  • API should use phrase token instead of use PhraseItem directly;

• improves current pinyin lookup methods;

new API for chewing/pinyin key

To hide the C++ methods from class ChewingKey.

• pinyin_get_chewing_string(instance, key, str);

• pinyin_get_pinyin_string(instance, key, str);

expose methods in class PhraseItem;

To access the information in the class PhraseItem.

• pinyin_token_get_phrase(instance, token, len, utf8_str);

• pinyin_token_get_n_pronunciation(instance, token, num);

• pinyin_token_get_nth_pronunciation(instance, token, nth, keys, freq);

• pinyin_token_get_unigram_frequency(instance, token, freq);

• pinyin_token_add_unigram_frequency(instance, token, delta);

dropped methods

• ChewingKey::get_chewing_string;

• ChewingKey::get_pinyin_string;

• pinyin_clear_constraint;

• pinyin_clear_constraints;

• pinyin_translate_token → pinyin_get_phrase_string;

• pinyin_get_pinyins_from_token;