ArabicStemFilter.java

package org.apache.lucene.analysis.ar;

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import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenFilter;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenStream;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.tokenattributes.TermAttribute;

/**
 * A {@link TokenFilter} that applies {@link ArabicStemmer} to stem Arabic words..
 * 
 */

public final class ArabicStemFilter extends TokenFilter {

  private final ArabicStemmer stemmer;
  private final TermAttribute termAtt;
  
  public ArabicStemFilter(TokenStream input) {
    super(input);
    stemmer = new ArabicStemmer();
    termAtt = addAttribute(TermAttribute.class);
  }

  @Override
  public boolean incrementToken() throws IOException {
    if (input.incrementToken()) {
      int newlen = stemmer.stem(termAtt.termBuffer(), termAtt.termLength());
      termAtt.setTermLength(newlen);
      return true;
    } else {
      return false;
    }
  }
}