public final class

LowerCaseFilter

extends TokenFilter
package org.apache.lucene.analysis;

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import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.lucene.analysis.tokenattributes.TermAttribute;

/**
 * Normalizes token text to lower case.
 */
public final class LowerCaseFilter extends TokenFilter {
  public LowerCaseFilter(TokenStream in) {
    super(in);
    termAtt = addAttribute(TermAttribute.class);
  }

  private TermAttribute termAtt;
  
  @Override
  public final boolean incrementToken() throws IOException {
    if (input.incrementToken()) {

      final char[] buffer = termAtt.termBuffer();
      final int length = termAtt.termLength();
      for(int i=0;i<length;i++)
        buffer[i] = Character.toLowerCase(buffer[i]);

      return true;
    } else
      return false;
  }
}