Package org.dspace.text.filter

Class InitialArticleWord

java.lang.Object

org.dspace.text.filter.InitialArticleWord

All Implemented Interfaces:

TextFilter

Direct Known Subclasses:

MARC21InitialArticleWord, StandardInitialArticleWord

public abstract class InitialArticleWord
extends Object
implements TextFilter

Abstract class for implementing initial article word filters Allows you to create new classes with their own rules for mapping languages to article word lists.

Author:

Graham Triggs

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Modifier	Constructor	Description
protected	InitialArticleWord()
protected	InitialArticleWord(boolean stripWord)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
String	filter(String str)	When no language is passed, use null and let implementation decide what to do
String	filter(String str, String lang)	Do an initial definite/indefinite article filter on the passed string.
protected abstract String[]	getArticleWords(String lang)	Abstract method to get the list of words to use in the initial word filter

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

InitialArticleWord

protected InitialArticleWord(boolean stripWord)

InitialArticleWord

protected InitialArticleWord()

Method Details

filter

public String filter(String str)

When no language is passed, use null and let implementation decide what to do

Specified by:

filter in interface TextFilter

filter

public String filter(String str,
 String lang)

Do an initial definite/indefinite article filter on the passed string. On matching an initial word, can strip or move to the end, depending on the configuration of the implementing class.

Specified by:

filter in interface TextFilter

Parameters:

str - The string to parse

lang - The language of the passed string

Returns:

String The filtered string

getArticleWords

protected abstract String[] getArticleWords(String lang)

Abstract method to get the list of words to use in the initial word filter

Parameters:

lang - The language to retrieve article words for

Returns:

An array of definite/indefinite article words