downcasetermprocessor.java

MG4J (Managing Gigabytes for Java) is a free full-text search engine for large document collections

package it.unimi.dsi.mg4j.index;

/*		 
 * MG4J: Managing Gigabytes for Java
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Sebastiano Vigna 
 *
 *  This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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 *  Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option)
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import it.unimi.dsi.lang.MutableString;

/** A term processor downcasing all characters. */

public class DowncaseTermProcessor implements TermProcessor {
	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

	private final static DowncaseTermProcessor INSTANCE = new DowncaseTermProcessor();
	
	public final static TermProcessor getInstance() {
		return INSTANCE;
	}
	
	private DowncaseTermProcessor() {}
	
	public boolean processTerm( final MutableString term ) {
		if ( term == null ) return false;
		term.toLowerCase();
		return true;
	}
	
	public boolean processPrefix( final MutableString prefix ) {
		return processTerm( prefix );
	}
	
	private Object readResolve() {
		return INSTANCE;
	}

	public String toString() {
		return this.getClass().getName();
	}
	
	public DowncaseTermProcessor copy() { return this; }
}