lucene/backwards/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/LengthFilter.java

package org.apache.lucene.analysis;

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import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.lucene.analysis.tokenattributes.TermAttribute;

/**
 * Removes words that are too long or too short from the stream.
 */
public final class LengthFilter extends TokenFilter {

  final int min;
  final int max;
  
  private TermAttribute termAtt;

  /**
   * Build a filter that removes words that are too long or too
   * short from the text.
   */
  public LengthFilter(TokenStream in, int min, int max)
  {
    super(in);
    this.min = min;
    this.max = max;
    termAtt = addAttribute(TermAttribute.class);
  }
  
  /**
   * Returns the next input Token whose term() is the right len
   */
  @Override
  public final boolean incrementToken() throws IOException {
    // return the first non-stop word found
    while (input.incrementToken()) {
      int len = termAtt.termLength();
      if (len >= min && len <= max) {
          return true;
      }
      // note: else we ignore it but should we index each part of it?
    }
    // reached EOS -- return false
    return false;
  }
}