Source: ner/named-entity.js

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/**
 * Class for a Named Entity that can be Enumerated or Regular Expression.
 */
class NamedEntity {
  /**
   * Constructor of the class.
   * @param {Object} settings - Settings for the instance.
   */
  constructor(settings) {
    this.settings = settings || {};
    this.type = 'unknown';
    this.name = this.settings.name;
    this.locales = {};
    this.localeFallback = Object.assign(
      { '*': 'en' },
      this.settings.localeFallback
    );
  }

  /**
   * Given a locale, return the rules for this locale with locale fallback.
   * @param {string} locale Locale to retrieve the rules.
   * @returns {Object} Rules for this locale.
   */
  getLocaleRules(locale) {
    let result = this.locales[locale];
    if (!result && this.localeFallback[locale]) {
      result = this.locales[this.localeFallback[locale]];
    }
    if (!result) {
      result = this.locales[this.localeFallback['*']];
    }
    return result;
  }

  /**
   * Get or create a locale.
   * @param {string} locale Locale of the language.
   * @param {boolean} create Flag indicating if should create if not exists.
   * @returns {Object} Locale object.
   */
  getLocale(locale, create = true) {
    if (!this.locales[locale] && create) {
      this.locales[locale] = {};
    }
    return this.locales[locale];
  }

  /**
   * Given an utterance extract Named entity occurances from this utterance.
   */
  extract() {
    throw new Error('Not implemented');
  }
}

module.exports = NamedEntity;