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package org.apache.commons.codec.language;

import java.util.Locale;

import org.apache.commons.codec.EncoderException;
import org.apache.commons.codec.StringEncoder;

/**
 * Match Rating Approach Phonetic Algorithm Developed by Western Airlines in 1977.
 * 

* This class is immutable and thread-safe. *

* * @see Wikipedia - Match Rating Approach * @since 1.8 */ public class MatchRatingApproachEncoder implements StringEncoder { private static final String SPACE = " "; private static final String EMPTY = ""; /** * The plain letter equivalent of the accented letters. */ private static final String PLAIN_ASCII = "AaEeIiOoUu" + // grave "AaEeIiOoUuYy" + // acute "AaEeIiOoUuYy" + // circumflex "AaOoNn" + // tilde "AaEeIiOoUuYy" + // umlaut "Aa" + // ring "Cc" + // cedilla "OoUu"; // double acute /** * Unicode characters corresponding to various accented letters. For example: \u00DA is U acute etc... */ private static final String UNICODE = "\u00C0\u00E0\u00C8\u00E8\u00CC\u00EC\u00D2\u00F2\u00D9\u00F9" + "\u00C1\u00E1\u00C9\u00E9\u00CD\u00ED\u00D3\u00F3\u00DA\u00FA\u00DD\u00FD" + "\u00C2\u00E2\u00CA\u00EA\u00CE\u00EE\u00D4\u00F4\u00DB\u00FB\u0176\u0177" + "\u00C3\u00E3\u00D5\u00F5\u00D1\u00F1" + "\u00C4\u00E4\u00CB\u00EB\u00CF\u00EF\u00D6\u00F6\u00DC\u00FC\u0178\u00FF" + "\u00C5\u00E5" + "\u00C7\u00E7" + "\u0150\u0151\u0170\u0171"; private static final String[] DOUBLE_CONSONANT = { "BB", "CC", "DD", "FF", "GG", "HH", "JJ", "KK", "LL", "MM", "NN", "PP", "QQ", "RR", "SS", "TT", "VV", "WW", "XX", "YY", "ZZ" }; /** * Cleans up a name: 1. Upper-cases everything 2. Removes some common punctuation 3. Removes accents 4. Removes any * spaces. * *

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* Consider this method private, it is package protected for unit testing only. *

* * @param name * The name to be cleaned * @return The cleaned name */ String cleanName(final String name) { String upperName = name.toUpperCase(Locale.ENGLISH); final String[] charsToTrim = { "\\-", "[&]", "\\'", "\\.", "[\\,]" }; for (final String str : charsToTrim) { upperName = upperName.replaceAll(str, EMPTY); } upperName = removeAccents(upperName); return upperName.replaceAll("\\s+", EMPTY); } /** * Encodes an Object using the Match Rating Approach algorithm. Method is here to satisfy the requirements of the * Encoder interface Throws an EncoderException if input object is not of type {@link String}. * * @param pObject * Object to encode * @return An object (or type {@link String}) containing the Match Rating Approach code which corresponds to the * String supplied. * @throws EncoderException * if the parameter supplied is not of type {@link String} */ @Override public final Object encode(final Object pObject) throws EncoderException { if (!(pObject instanceof String)) { throw new EncoderException( "Parameter supplied to Match Rating Approach encoder is not of type java.lang.String"); } return encode((String) pObject); } /** * Encodes a String using the Match Rating Approach (MRA) algorithm. * * @param name * String object to encode * @return The MRA code corresponding to the String supplied */ @Override public final String encode(String name) { // Bulletproof for trivial input - NINO if (name == null || EMPTY.equalsIgnoreCase(name) || SPACE.equalsIgnoreCase(name) || name.length() == 1) { return EMPTY; } // Preprocessing name = cleanName(name); // Bulletproof if name becomes empty after cleanName(name) if (SPACE.equals(name) || name.isEmpty()) { return EMPTY; } // BEGIN: Actual encoding part of the algorithm... // 1. Delete all vowels unless the vowel begins the word name = removeVowels(name); // Bulletproof if name becomes empty after removeVowels(name) if (SPACE.equals(name) || name.isEmpty()) { return EMPTY; } // 2. Remove second consonant from any double consonant name = removeDoubleConsonants(name); return getFirst3Last3(name); } /** * Gets the first and last 3 letters of a name (if > 6 characters) Else just returns the name. * *

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* Consider this method private, it is package protected for unit testing only. *

* * @param name * The string to get the substrings from * @return Annexed first and last 3 letters of input word. */ String getFirst3Last3(final String name) { final int nameLength = name.length(); if (nameLength > 6) { final String firstThree = name.substring(0, 3); final String lastThree = name.substring(nameLength - 3, nameLength); return firstThree + lastThree; } return name; } /** * Obtains the min rating of the length sum of the 2 names. In essence the larger the sum length the smaller the * min rating. Values strictly from documentation. * *

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* Consider this method private, it is package protected for unit testing only. *

* * @param sumLength * The length of 2 strings sent down * @return The min rating value */ int getMinRating(final int sumLength) { int minRating = 0; if (sumLength <= 4) { minRating = 5; } else if (sumLength <= 7) { // already know it is at least 5 minRating = 4; } else if (sumLength <= 11) { // already know it is at least 8 minRating = 3; } else if (sumLength == 12) { minRating = 2; } else { minRating = 1; // docs said little here. } return minRating; } /** * Determines if two names are homophonous via Match Rating Approach (MRA) algorithm. It should be noted that the * strings are cleaned in the same way as {@link #encode(String)}. * * @param name1 * First of the 2 strings (names) to compare * @param name2 * Second of the 2 names to compare * @return {@code true} if the encodings are identical {@code false} otherwise. */ public boolean isEncodeEquals(String name1, String name2) { // Bulletproof for trivial input - NINO if (name1 == null || EMPTY.equalsIgnoreCase(name1) || SPACE.equalsIgnoreCase(name1)) { return false; } if (name2 == null || EMPTY.equalsIgnoreCase(name2) || SPACE.equalsIgnoreCase(name2)) { return false; } if (name1.length() == 1 || name2.length() == 1) { return false; } if (name1.equalsIgnoreCase(name2)) { return true; } // Preprocessing name1 = cleanName(name1); name2 = cleanName(name2); // Actual MRA Algorithm // 1. Remove vowels name1 = removeVowels(name1); name2 = removeVowels(name2); // 2. Remove double consonants name1 = removeDoubleConsonants(name1); name2 = removeDoubleConsonants(name2); // 3. Reduce down to 3 letters name1 = getFirst3Last3(name1); name2 = getFirst3Last3(name2); // 4. Check for length difference - if 3 or greater, then no similarity // comparison is done if (Math.abs(name1.length() - name2.length()) >= 3) { return false; } // 5. Obtain the minimum rating value by calculating the length sum of the // encoded Strings and sending it down. final int sumLength = Math.abs(name1.length() + name2.length()); final int minRating = getMinRating(sumLength); // 6. Process the encoded Strings from left to right and remove any // identical characters found from both Strings respectively. final int count = leftToRightThenRightToLeftProcessing(name1, name2); // 7. Each PNI item that has a similarity rating equal to or greater than // the min is considered to be a good candidate match return count >= minRating; } /** * Determines if a letter is a vowel. * *

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* Consider this method private, it is package protected for unit testing only. *

* * @param letter * The letter under investigation * @return True if a vowel, else false */ boolean isVowel(final String letter) { return letter.equalsIgnoreCase("E") || letter.equalsIgnoreCase("A") || letter.equalsIgnoreCase("O") || letter.equalsIgnoreCase("I") || letter.equalsIgnoreCase("U"); } /** * Processes the names from left to right (first) then right to left removing identical letters in same positions. * Then subtracts the longer string that remains from 6 and returns this. * *

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* Consider this method private, it is package protected for unit testing only. *

* * @param name1 * name2 * @return the length as above */ int leftToRightThenRightToLeftProcessing(final String name1, final String name2) { final char[] name1Char = name1.toCharArray(); final char[] name2Char = name2.toCharArray(); final int name1Size = name1.length() - 1; final int name2Size = name2.length() - 1; String name1LtRStart = EMPTY; String name1LtREnd = EMPTY; String name2RtLStart = EMPTY; String name2RtLEnd = EMPTY; for (int i = 0; i < name1Char.length; i++) { if (i > name2Size) { break; } name1LtRStart = name1.substring(i, i + 1); name1LtREnd = name1.substring(name1Size - i, name1Size - i + 1); name2RtLStart = name2.substring(i, i + 1); name2RtLEnd = name2.substring(name2Size - i, name2Size - i + 1); // Left to right... if (name1LtRStart.equals(name2RtLStart)) { name1Char[i] = ' '; name2Char[i] = ' '; } // Right to left... if (name1LtREnd.equals(name2RtLEnd)) { name1Char[name1Size - i] = ' '; name2Char[name2Size - i] = ' '; } } // Char arrays -> string & remove extraneous space final String strA = new String(name1Char).replaceAll("\\s+", EMPTY); final String strB = new String(name2Char).replaceAll("\\s+", EMPTY); // Final bit - subtract the longest string from 6 and return this int value if (strA.length() > strB.length()) { return Math.abs(6 - strA.length()); } return Math.abs(6 - strB.length()); } /** * Removes accented letters and replaces with non-accented ASCII equivalent Case is preserved. * http://www.codecodex.com/wiki/Remove_accent_from_letters_%28ex_.%C3%A9_to_e%29 * * @param accentedWord * The word that may have accents in it. * @return De-accented word */ String removeAccents(final String accentedWord) { if (accentedWord == null) { return null; } final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); final int n = accentedWord.length(); for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { final char c = accentedWord.charAt(i); final int pos = UNICODE.indexOf(c); if (pos > -1) { sb.append(PLAIN_ASCII.charAt(pos)); } else { sb.append(c); } } return sb.toString(); } /** * Replaces any double consonant pair with the single letter equivalent. * *

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* Consider this method private, it is package protected for unit testing only. *

* * @param name * String to have double consonants removed * @return Single consonant word */ String removeDoubleConsonants(final String name) { String replacedName = name.toUpperCase(Locale.ENGLISH); for (final String dc : DOUBLE_CONSONANT) { if (replacedName.contains(dc)) { final String singleLetter = dc.substring(0, 1); replacedName = replacedName.replace(dc, singleLetter); } } return replacedName; } /** * Deletes all vowels unless the vowel begins the word. * *

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* Consider this method private, it is package protected for unit testing only. *

* * @param name * The name to have vowels removed * @return De-voweled word */ String removeVowels(String name) { // Extract first letter final String firstLetter = name.substring(0, 1); name = name.replace("A", EMPTY); name = name.replace("E", EMPTY); name = name.replace("I", EMPTY); name = name.replace("O", EMPTY); name = name.replace("U", EMPTY); name = name.replaceAll("\\s{2,}\\b", SPACE); // return isVowel(firstLetter) ? (firstLetter + name) : name; if (isVowel(firstLetter)) { return firstLetter + name; } return name; } }




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