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Description: source: package: org.apache.commons.text.similarity, class: FuzzyScore

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    017package org.apache.commons.text.similarity;
    018
    019import java.util.Locale;
    020
    021/**
    022 * A matching algorithm that is similar to the searching algorithms implemented in editors such
    023 * as Sublime Text, TextMate, Atom and others.
    024 *
    025 * <p>
    026 * One point is given for every matched character. Subsequent matches yield two bonus points. A higher score
    027 * indicates a higher similarity.
    028 * </p>
    029 *
    030 * <p>
    031 * This code has been adapted from Apache Commons Lang 3.3.
    032 * </p>
    033 *
    034 * @since 1.0
    035 */
    036public class FuzzyScore {
    037
    038    /**
    039     * Locale used to change the case of text.
    040     */
    041    private final Locale locale;
    042
    043
    044    /**
    045     * This returns a {@link Locale}-specific {@link FuzzyScore}.
    046     *
    047     * @param locale The string matching logic is case insensitive.
    048                     A {@link Locale} is necessary to normalize both Strings to lower case.
    049     * @throws IllegalArgumentException
    050     *         This is thrown if the {@link Locale} parameter is {@code null}.
    051     */
    052    public FuzzyScore(final Locale locale) {
    053        if (locale == null) {
    054            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Locale must not be null");
    055        }
    056        this.locale = locale;
    057    }
    058
    059    /**
    060     * Find the Fuzzy Score which indicates the similarity score between two
    061     * Strings.
    062     *
    063     * <pre>
    064     * score.fuzzyScore(null, null)                          = IllegalArgumentException
    065     * score.fuzzyScore("not null", null)                    = IllegalArgumentException
    066     * score.fuzzyScore(null, "not null")                    = IllegalArgumentException
    067     * score.fuzzyScore("", "")                              = 0
    068     * score.fuzzyScore("Workshop", "b")                     = 0
    069     * score.fuzzyScore("Room", "o")                         = 1
    070     * score.fuzzyScore("Workshop", "w")                     = 1
    071     * score.fuzzyScore("Workshop", "ws")                    = 2
    072     * score.fuzzyScore("Workshop", "wo")                    = 4
    073     * score.fuzzyScore("Apache Software Foundation", "asf") = 3
    074     * </pre>
    075     *
    076     * @param term a full term that should be matched against, must not be null
    077     * @param query the query that will be matched against a term, must not be
    078     *            null
    079     * @return result score
    080     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the term or query is {@code null}
    081     */
    082    public Integer fuzzyScore(final CharSequence term, final CharSequence query) {
    083        if (term == null || query == null) {
    084            throw new IllegalArgumentException("CharSequences must not be null");
    085        }
    086
    087        // fuzzy logic is case insensitive. We normalize the Strings to lower
    088        // case right from the start. Turning characters to lower case
    089        // via Character.toLowerCase(char) is unfortunately insufficient
    090        // as it does not accept a locale.
    091        final String termLowerCase = term.toString().toLowerCase(locale);
    092        final String queryLowerCase = query.toString().toLowerCase(locale);
    093
    094        // the resulting score
    095        int score = 0;
    096
    097        // the position in the term which will be scanned next for potential
    098        // query character matches
    099        int termIndex = 0;
    100
    101        // index of the previously matched character in the term
    102        int previousMatchingCharacterIndex = Integer.MIN_VALUE;
    103
    104        for (int queryIndex = 0; queryIndex < queryLowerCase.length(); queryIndex++) {
    105            final char queryChar = queryLowerCase.charAt(queryIndex);
    106
    107            boolean termCharacterMatchFound = false;
    108            for (; termIndex < termLowerCase.length()
    109                    && !termCharacterMatchFound; termIndex++) {
    110                final char termChar = termLowerCase.charAt(termIndex);
    111
    112                if (queryChar == termChar) {
    113                    // simple character matches result in one point
    114                    score++;
    115
    116                    // subsequent character matches further improve
    117                    // the score.
    118                    if (previousMatchingCharacterIndex + 1 == termIndex) {
    119                        score += 2;
    120                    }
    121
    122                    previousMatchingCharacterIndex = termIndex;
    123
    124                    // we can leave the nested loop. Every character in the
    125                    // query can match at most one character in the term.
    126                    termCharacterMatchFound = true;
    127                }
    128            }
    129        }
    130
    131        return score;
    132    }
    133
    134    /**
    135     * Gets the locale.
    136     *
    137     * @return The locale
    138     */
    139    public Locale getLocale() {
    140        return locale;
    141    }
    142
    143}