de.unidu.is.text
Class SoundexFilter

java.lang.Object
  de.unidu.is.text.AbstractFilter
      de.unidu.is.text.AbstractSingleItemFilter
          de.unidu.is.text.SoundexFilter

All Implemented Interfaces:

Filter, SingleItemFilter

public class SoundexFilter

extends AbstractSingleItemFilter

This filter converts a specified string into its soundex representation. This is useful for testing whether strings sound the same.

This implementation uses the nonfree version (not packaged here) if available (for backwards compatibility), and the Apache Jakarta Commons Codec implementation otherwise.

Since:

2003-07-04

Version:

$Revision: 1.8 $, $Date: 2005/02/28 22:27:55 $

Author:

Henrik Nottelmann

Field Summary

protected SingleItemFilter

soundexFilter Soundex filter to which calls are delegated.

Fields inherited from class de.unidu.is.text.AbstractFilter

nextFilter

Constructor Summary

SoundexFilter(Filter nextFilter)
Creates a new instance and sets the next filter in the chain.

Method Summary

java.lang.Object

run(java.lang.Object value) Converts the specified object into its soundex value.

Methods inherited from class de.unidu.is.text.AbstractSingleItemFilter

filter

Methods inherited from class de.unidu.is.text.AbstractFilter

apply, apply

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

soundexFilter

protected SingleItemFilter soundexFilter

Soundex filter to which calls are delegated.

Constructor Detail

SoundexFilter

public SoundexFilter(Filter nextFilter)

Creates a new instance and sets the next filter in the chain.

Parameters:

nextFilter - next filter in the filter chain

Method Detail

run

public java.lang.Object run(java.lang.Object value)

Converts the specified object into its soundex value.

Parameters:

value - string to be converted

Returns:

soundex representation of the specified value