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package nl.inl.blacklab.filter;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenFilter;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenStream;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.tokenattributes.CharTermAttribute;

/**
 * Removes any accents from the input.
 *
 * NOTE: Lucene includes ASCIIFoldingFilter, but this works with non-ASCII characters too.
 *
 * Uses Normalizer, so Java 1.6+ is needed. If this is not available, use an approach such as
 * RemoveDutchAccentsFilter.
 */
public class RemoveAllAccentsFilter extends TokenFilter {

    private CharTermAttribute termAtt;

    /**
     * @param input the token stream from which to remove accents
     */
    public RemoveAllAccentsFilter(TokenStream input) {
        super(input);
        termAtt = addAttribute(CharTermAttribute.class);
    }

    @Override
    final public boolean incrementToken() throws IOException {
        if (input.incrementToken()) {
            String t = new String(termAtt.buffer(), 0, termAtt.length());
            t = StringUtils.stripAccents(t);
            termAtt.copyBuffer(t.toCharArray(), 0, t.length());
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

}