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/* Created on Jul 20, 2003 */
package org.apache.roller.weblogger.business.search;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.StringReader;

import org.apache.lucene.analysis.Analyzer;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenStream;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.tokenattributes.CharTermAttribute;
import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;

/**
 * Class containing helper methods.
 * 
 * @author Mindaugas Idzelis (min@idzelis.com)
 */
public final class IndexUtil {

    private IndexUtil() {}

    /**
     * Create a lucene term from the first token of the input string.
     * 
     * @param field
     *            The lucene document field to create a term with
     * @param input
     *            The input you wish to convert into a term
     * 
     * @return Lucene search term
     */
    public static Term getTerm(String field, String input) {
        if (input == null || field == null) {
            return null;
        }
        Analyzer analyzer = IndexManagerImpl.getAnalyzer();
        Term term = null;
        try {
            TokenStream tokens = analyzer.tokenStream(field, new StringReader(input));
            CharTermAttribute termAtt = tokens.addAttribute(CharTermAttribute.class);
            tokens.reset();

            if (tokens.incrementToken()) {
                String termt = termAtt.toString();
                term = new Term(field, termt);
            }
        } catch (IOException e) {
            // ignored
        }
        return term;
    }

}
