Module org.tentackle.common

Package org.tentackle.common

Class DefaultStringNormalizer

java.lang.Object

org.tentackle.common.DefaultStringNormalizer

All Implemented Interfaces:

StringNormalizer

@Service(StringNormalizer.class)
public class DefaultStringNormalizer
extends Object
implements StringNormalizer

The default normalizer (works sufficiently for most western languages).

Author:

harald

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
DefaultStringNormalizer()	Creates normalizer. With a comma as the field separator and space as word separator.
DefaultStringNormalizer(char fieldSeparator, char wordSeparator)	Creates a normalizer.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
String	normalize(String str)	Normalizes a string (phonetically) for use as PDO.normText.
String	unDiacrit(String str, boolean keepLength)	Converts special unicode characters (so-called diacrits) to standard ascii. Supports also special german and northern european "umlauts".

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Details

DefaultStringNormalizer

public DefaultStringNormalizer(char fieldSeparator,
 char wordSeparator)

Creates a normalizer.

Parameters:

fieldSeparator - separator between text fields, 0 if none

wordSeparator - separator between words during reduction

DefaultStringNormalizer

public DefaultStringNormalizer()

Creates normalizer.
With a comma as the field separator and space as word separator.

Method Details

unDiacrit

public String unDiacrit(String str,
 boolean keepLength)

Description copied from interface: StringNormalizer

Converts special unicode characters (so-called diacrits) to standard ascii.
Supports also special german and northern european "umlauts".

Specified by:

unDiacrit in interface StringNormalizer

Parameters:

str - the string to be converted

keepLength - true if the length should be kept, i.e. no Ä to AE, but to A

Returns:

the converted string

normalize

public String normalize(String str)

Normalizes a string (phonetically) for use as PDO.normText.

Specified by:

normalize in interface StringNormalizer

Parameters:

str - the string to be normalized

Returns:

the normalized string