lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/core/LetterTokenizer.java

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package org.apache.lucene.analysis.core;


import org.apache.lucene.analysis.Tokenizer;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.util.CharTokenizer;
import org.apache.lucene.util.AttributeFactory;

/**
 * A LetterTokenizer is a tokenizer that divides text at non-letters. That's to
 * say, it defines tokens as maximal strings of adjacent letters, as defined by
 * java.lang.Character.isLetter() predicate.
 * <p>
 * Note: this does a decent job for most European languages, but does a terrible
 * job for some Asian languages, where words are not separated by spaces.
 * </p>
 */

public class LetterTokenizer extends CharTokenizer {
  
  /**
   * Construct a new LetterTokenizer.
   */
  public LetterTokenizer() {
  }
  
  /**
   * Construct a new LetterTokenizer using a given
   * {@link org.apache.lucene.util.AttributeFactory}.
   * 
   * @param factory
   *          the attribute factory to use for this {@link Tokenizer}
   */
  public LetterTokenizer(AttributeFactory factory) {
    super(factory);
  }
  
  /**
   * Construct a new LetterTokenizer using a given
   * {@link org.apache.lucene.util.AttributeFactory}.
   *
   * @param factory the attribute factory to use for this {@link Tokenizer}
   * @param maxTokenLen maximum token length the tokenizer will emit. 
   *        Must be greater than 0 and less than MAX_TOKEN_LENGTH_LIMIT (1024*1024)
   * @throws IllegalArgumentException if maxTokenLen is invalid.

   */
  public LetterTokenizer(AttributeFactory factory, int maxTokenLen) {
    super(factory, maxTokenLen);
  }

  /** Collects only characters which satisfy
   * {@link Character#isLetter(int)}.*/
  @Override
  protected boolean isTokenChar(int c) {
    return Character.isLetter(c);
  }
}