org.apache.lucene.collation
Class ICUCollationKeyFilter

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.lucene.util.AttributeSource
      org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenStream
          org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenFilter
              org.apache.lucene.collation.ICUCollationKeyFilter

All Implemented Interfaces:

Closeable

public final class ICUCollationKeyFilter
extends TokenFilter

Converts each token into its CollationKey, and then encodes the CollationKey with IndexableBinaryStringTools, to allow it to be stored as an index term.

WARNING: Make sure you use exactly the same Collator at index and query time -- CollationKeys are only comparable when produced by the same Collator. RuleBasedCollators are independently versioned, so it is safe to search against stored CollationKeys if the following are exactly the same (best practice is to store this information with the index and check that they remain the same at query time):

1. Collator version - see Collator.getVersion()
2. The collation strength used - see Collator.setStrength(int)

CollationKeys generated by ICU Collators are not compatible with those generated by java.text.Collators. Specifically, if you use ICUCollationKeyFilter to generate index terms, do not use CollationKeyFilter on the query side, or vice versa.

ICUCollationKeyFilter is significantly faster and generates significantly shorter keys than CollationKeyFilter. See http://site.icu-project.org/charts/collation-icu4j-sun for key generation timing and key length comparisons between ICU4J and java.text.Collator over several languages.

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class org.apache.lucene.util.AttributeSource

AttributeSource.AttributeFactory, AttributeSource.State

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenFilter

input

Constructor Summary

ICUCollationKeyFilter(TokenStream input, com.ibm.icu.text.Collator collator)

Method Summary

boolean

incrementToken() Consumers (i.e., IndexWriter) use this method to advance the stream to the next token.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenFilter

close, end, reset

Methods inherited from class org.apache.lucene.util.AttributeSource

addAttribute, addAttributeImpl, captureState, clearAttributes, cloneAttributes, copyTo, equals, getAttribute, getAttributeClassesIterator, getAttributeFactory, getAttributeImplsIterator, hasAttribute, hasAttributes, hashCode, reflectAsString, reflectWith, restoreState, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ICUCollationKeyFilter

public ICUCollationKeyFilter(TokenStream input,
                             com.ibm.icu.text.Collator collator)

Parameters:

input - Source token stream

collator - CollationKey generator

Method Detail

incrementToken

public boolean incrementToken()
                       throws IOException

Description copied from class: TokenStream

Consumers (i.e., IndexWriter) use this method to advance the stream to the next token. Implementing classes must implement this method and update the appropriate AttributeImpls with the attributes of the next token.

The producer must make no assumptions about the attributes after the method has been returned: the caller may arbitrarily change it. If the producer needs to preserve the state for subsequent calls, it can use AttributeSource.captureState() to create a copy of the current attribute state.

This method is called for every token of a document, so an efficient implementation is crucial for good performance. To avoid calls to AttributeSource.addAttribute(Class) and AttributeSource.getAttribute(Class), references to all AttributeImpls that this stream uses should be retrieved during instantiation.

To ensure that filters and consumers know which attributes are available, the attributes must be added during instantiation. Filters and consumers are not required to check for availability of attributes in TokenStream.incrementToken().

Specified by:

incrementToken in class TokenStream

Returns:

false for end of stream; true otherwise

Throws:

IOException