StringTools.java

package com.antbrains.crf.hadoop;

import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;

import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;

public class StringTools {
  public static String normalizeQuery(String s) {
    return s.toLowerCase();
  }

  public static String transformTextToUTF8(Text text, String encoding) {
    String value = null;
    try {
      value = new String(text.getBytes(), 0, text.getLength(), encoding);
    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return value;
  }
}