org.apache.lucene.collation

Class ICUCollationKeyAnalyzer

java.lang.Object

org.apache.lucene.analysis.Analyzer

org.apache.lucene.collation.ICUCollationKeyAnalyzer

All Implemented Interfaces:

Closeable

public final class ICUCollationKeyAnalyzer
extends Analyzer

Configures KeywordTokenizer with ICUCollationAttributeFactory.

Converts the token into its CollationKey, and then encodes the CollationKey either directly or with IndexableBinaryStringTools (see below), 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 ICUCollationKeyAnalyzer to generate index terms, do not use CollationKeyAnalyzer on the query side, or vice versa.

ICUCollationKeyAnalyzer is significantly faster and generates significantly shorter keys than CollationKeyAnalyzer. 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.

You must specify the required Version compatibility when creating ICUCollationKeyAnalyzer:

• As of 4.0, Collation Keys are directly encoded as bytes. Previous versions will encode the bytes with IndexableBinaryStringTools.

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class org.apache.lucene.analysis.Analyzer

Analyzer.GlobalReuseStrategy, Analyzer.PerFieldReuseStrategy, Analyzer.ReuseStrategy, Analyzer.TokenStreamComponents

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
ICUCollationKeyAnalyzer(com.ibm.icu.text.Collator collator) Deprecated. Use ICUCollationKeyAnalyzer(Version, Collator) and specify a version instead. This ctor will be removed in Lucene 5.0
ICUCollationKeyAnalyzer(Version matchVersion, com.ibm.icu.text.Collator collator) Create a new ICUCollationKeyAnalyzer, using the specified collator.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
protected Analyzer.TokenStreamComponents	createComponents(String fieldName, Reader reader)

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

close, getOffsetGap, getPositionIncrementGap, initReader, tokenStream

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ICUCollationKeyAnalyzer

public ICUCollationKeyAnalyzer(Version matchVersion,
                       com.ibm.icu.text.Collator collator)

Create a new ICUCollationKeyAnalyzer, using the specified collator.

Parameters:

matchVersion - See above

collator - CollationKey generator

ICUCollationKeyAnalyzer

@Deprecated
public ICUCollationKeyAnalyzer(com.ibm.icu.text.Collator collator)

Deprecated. Use ICUCollationKeyAnalyzer(Version, Collator) and specify a version instead. This ctor will be removed in Lucene 5.0

Method Detail

createComponents

protected Analyzer.TokenStreamComponents createComponents(String fieldName,
                                              Reader reader)

Specified by:

createComponents in class Analyzer