Hi,
I'm trying to add a phonetic algorithm to the Apache Lucene project. I
have the algorithm ready-to-go plus tests. All that remains is "hard-wiring" it
into the project itself (which I'm finding difficult). I need some help here (a
little hand holding)
I initially thought that I had to put it into the commons-codec
sub-project but I was corrected and told to put the algorithm into the
lucene/analysis/phoenetic/src/java area and implement
org.apache.commons.codec.Encoder
I'm a little worried by this as all I see are filters here and I'm
trying to follow existing pattern before I upload the patch.
Anyway, what I have at the moment is something like this sketch:
public class NewPhoenetic implements org.apache.commons.codec.Encoder{public
static String GetMRA(String name){ //blah blah - gets the encoding
}
public static boolean ComparePhoeneticEncoding(String name1, string name2){
//compare 2 encoded names to see if they match //etc...
}
@Overridepublic Object encode(Object arg0) throws EncoderException {//return
null;if(arg0 == null)return null;return
MatchRatingApproach.GetPhoeneticEncoding(arg0.toString());}
}
My question are: 1. Am I going in the right direction, any suggestions,
improvements, things to watch out for? The second question is how do I
integrate the unit tests that I have. I see that may are located in:
lucene/analysis/phoenetic/src/test but I don't understand the pattern.
I would appreciate if you could code some small code-samples/patterns
along with any explanations - I'm still pretty new to Java so what may be
simple to you may not be so obvious to me.
Thanks for any help in advance,Catherine
