NameNormalizer.java

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package net.lardcave.fakecontacts;

// wzdd: can't be bothered to port icu4jni at the moment, so this is mostly stubs.

/**
 * Converts a name to a normalized form by removing all non-letter characters and normalizing
 * UNICODE according to http://unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr15
 */
public class NameNormalizer {

    /**
     * Converts the supplied name to a string that can be used to perform approximate matching
     * of names.  It ignores non-letter characters and removes accents.
     */
    public static String normalize(String name) {
        return Hex.encodeHex(lettersAndDigitsOnly(name).getBytes(), true);
    }

    /**
     * Compares "complexity" of two names, which is determined by the presence
     * of mixed case characters, accents and, if all else is equal, length.
     */
    public static int compareComplexity(String name1, String name2) {
        return name1.length() - name2.length();
    }

    /**
     * Returns a string containing just the letters from the original string.
     */
    private static String lettersAndDigitsOnly(String name) {
        char[] letters = name.toCharArray();
        int length = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < letters.length; i++) {
            final char c = letters[i];
            if (Character.isLetterOrDigit(c)) {
                letters[length++] = c;
            }
        }

        if (length != letters.length) {
            return new String(letters, 0, length);
        }

        return name;
    }
}