Class PorterStemFilter

All Implemented Interfaces:
Closeable, AutoCloseable, Unwrappable<TokenStream>

public final class PorterStemFilter extends TokenFilter
Transforms the token stream as per the Porter stemming algorithm. Note: the input to the stemming filter must already be in lower case, so you will need to use LowerCaseFilter or LowerCaseTokenizer farther down the Tokenizer chain in order for this to work properly!

To use this filter with other analyzers, you'll want to write an Analyzer class that sets up the TokenStream chain as you want it. To use this with LowerCaseTokenizer, for example, you'd write an analyzer like this:

 class MyAnalyzer extends Analyzer {
   @Override
   protected TokenStreamComponents createComponents(String fieldName) {
     Tokenizer source = new LowerCaseTokenizer(version, reader);
     return new TokenStreamComponents(source, new PorterStemFilter(source));
   }
 }
 

Note: This filter is aware of the KeywordAttribute. To prevent certain terms from being passed to the stemmer KeywordAttribute.isKeyword() should be set to true in a previous TokenStream.

Note: For including the original term as well as the stemmed version, see KeywordRepeatFilterFactory

  • Field Details

  • Constructor Details

    • PorterStemFilter

      public PorterStemFilter(TokenStream in)
  • Method Details

    • incrementToken

      public final boolean incrementToken() throws IOException
      Description copied from class: TokenStream
      Consumers (i.e., IndexWriter) use this method to advance the stream to the next token. Implementing classes must implement this method and update the appropriate AttributeImpls with the attributes of the next token.

      The producer must make no assumptions about the attributes after the method has been returned: the caller may arbitrarily change it. If the producer needs to preserve the state for subsequent calls, it can use AttributeSource.captureState() to create a copy of the current attribute state.

      This method is called for every token of a document, so an efficient implementation is crucial for good performance. To avoid calls to AttributeSource.addAttribute(Class) and AttributeSource.getAttribute(Class), references to all AttributeImpls that this stream uses should be retrieved during instantiation.

      To ensure that filters and consumers know which attributes are available, the attributes must be added during instantiation. Filters and consumers are not required to check for availability of attributes in TokenStream.incrementToken().

      Specified by:
      incrementToken in class TokenStream
      Returns:
      false for end of stream; true otherwise
      Throws:
      IOException