Hi Rafael, I kind of agree with you. Practically all the StemFilters have the same logic, they might be combined into only one class. All StemFilters seems to have a setStemmer already, we could keep that and also allow to pass the stemmer as a constructor paramenter, like you said. I think you can create a JIRA and submit a patch for that, let's see what the lucene member will think about it :)
Now, about the BrazilianAnalyzer being final, it's probably only because they wanted to increase the runtime performance, as long as final classes are faster once the JVM does not need to check for subclassing. Best Regards, Adriano Crestani Campos On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Rafael Cunha de Almeida < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:46:30 -0200 > Rafael Cunha de Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:58:47 -0800 > > "Adriano Crestani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi Rafael, > > > > > > What is your scenario? > > > > > > Maybe it was defined this way so it do not filter uppercased stop > words. > > > Like, for example, the downcased word "se" is a stopword, but the > uppercased > > > "SE" stands for "Sergipe", a brazilian state, so it should not be > filtered. > > > > Suppose you are right, but passing it through the LowerCaseFilter can > > be useful too, specially if you don't care much about those corner > > cases (the GermanAnalyzer, for instance, passes through > > LowerCaseFilter first). The class being final doesn't allow to inherit > > from it and make the changes if one needs to, which is unfortunate :-(. > > > > I would like to see a change in this whole stemmer's and language > > analyzer's API in order to make it more flexible and extensible. The > > way it is you have to use them in that predeterminaded way. > > > > It would be nice if there was only one StemFilter, a Stemmer interface > > and all Stemmers were subclasses of that. Then, the StemFilter should > > get its Stemmer as a constructor parameter. I see no reason for > > BrazilianAnalyzer to be public. > > To be final, sorry. I was a bit tired when I wrote all that. > > > Are you interested in those kind of changes? Do you agree with them? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >