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The Apache Commons Codec package contains simple encoder and decoders for various formats such as Base64 and Hexadecimal. In addition to these widely used encoders and decoders, the codec package also maintains a collection of phonetic encoding utilities.

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package org.apache.commons.codec.language;

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

/**
 * Encodes a string into a Caverphone 2.0 value. Delegate to a {@link Caverphone2} instance.
 *
 * This is an algorithm created by the Caversham Project at the University of Otago. It implements the Caverphone 2.0
 * algorithm:
 *
 * @version $Id: Caverphone.java 1079535 2011-03-08 20:54:37Z ggregory $
 * @see Wikipedia - Caverphone
 * @see Caverphone 2.0 specification
 * @since 1.4
 * @deprecated 1.5 Replaced by {@link Caverphone2}, will be removed in 2.0.
 */
@Deprecated
public class Caverphone implements StringEncoder {

    /**
     * Delegate to a {@link Caverphone2} instance to avoid code duplication.
     */
    final private Caverphone2 encoder = new Caverphone2();

    /**
     * Creates an instance of the Caverphone encoder
     */
    public Caverphone() {
        super();
    }

    /**
     * Encodes the given String into a Caverphone value.
     *
     * @param source
     *            String the source string
     * @return A caverphone code for the given String
     */
    public String caverphone(final String source) {
        return this.encoder.encode(source);
    }

    /**
     * Encodes an Object using the caverphone algorithm. This method is provided in order to satisfy the requirements of
     * the Encoder interface, and will throw an EncoderException if the supplied object is not of type java.lang.String.
     *
     * @param obj
     *            Object to encode
     * @return An object (or type java.lang.String) containing the caverphone code which corresponds to the String
     *         supplied.
     * @throws EncoderException
     *             if the parameter supplied is not of type java.lang.String
     */
    @Override
    public Object encode(final Object obj) throws EncoderException {
        if (!(obj instanceof String)) {
            throw new EncoderException("Parameter supplied to Caverphone encode is not of type java.lang.String");
        }
        return this.caverphone((String) obj);
    }

    /**
     * Encodes a String using the Caverphone algorithm.
     *
     * @param str
     *            String object to encode
     * @return The caverphone code corresponding to the String supplied
     */
    @Override
    public String encode(final String str) {
        return this.caverphone(str);
    }

    /**
     * Tests if the caverphones of two strings are identical.
     *
     * @param str1
     *            First of two strings to compare
     * @param str2
     *            Second of two strings to compare
     * @return true if the caverphones of these strings are identical, false otherwise.
     */
    public boolean isCaverphoneEqual(final String str1, final String str2) {
        return this.caverphone(str1).equals(this.caverphone(str2));
    }

}