Usage

You can create PdicDictionary object using loadDictionary function.

import tokyo.northside.pdic.PdicDictionary

var file = new File("Sample.dic");
var cache = new File("Sample.idx");
PdicDictionary dictionary = PdicDictionary.loadDictionary(file, cache);

then you can get dictionary entries with getEntries method

for (var ele: dictionary.getEntries("hello")) {
    println(ele.headword);
    println(ele.translation);
    println(ele.example);
}

PdicElement class has fields.

Fields of PdicElement

name	type	description
attribute	byte	attribute bit field
indexWord	String	keyword for indexing, ex. index
headWord	String	title word to show, ex. Indexes
translation	String	translation explanation
example	String	example of word usage
pronunciation	String	pronunciation explanation

Index file

pdic4j create the file of index as like name.dic.idx. It stores byte positions of each entries against indexWord in the original binary format. Pdic4j caches the index data of searched elements read from the index file with the simple LRU algorithm.