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17  package org.apache.commons.codec.language;
18  
19  import java.util.Locale;
20  
21  import org.apache.commons.codec.EncoderException;
22  import org.apache.commons.codec.StringEncoder;
23  
24  /**
25   * Match Rating Approach Phonetic Algorithm Developed by <CITE>Western Airlines</CITE> in 1977.
26   * <p>
27   * This class is immutable and thread-safe.
28   * </p>
29   *
30   * @see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_rating_approach">Wikipedia - Match Rating Approach</a>
31   * @since 1.8
32   */
33  public class MatchRatingApproachEncoder implements StringEncoder {
34  
35      private static final String SPACE = " ";
36  
37      private static final String EMPTY = "";
38  
39      /**
40       * The plain letter equivalent of the accented letters.
41       */
42      private static final String PLAIN_ASCII = "AaEeIiOoUu" + // grave
43              "AaEeIiOoUuYy" + // acute
44              "AaEeIiOoUuYy" + // circumflex
45              "AaOoNn" + // tilde
46              "AaEeIiOoUuYy" + // umlaut
47              "Aa" + // ring
48              "Cc" + // cedilla
49              "OoUu"; // double acute
50  
51      /**
52       * Unicode characters corresponding to various accented letters. For example: \u00DA is U acute etc...
53       */
54      private static final String UNICODE = "\u00C0\u00E0\u00C8\u00E8\u00CC\u00EC\u00D2\u00F2\u00D9\u00F9" +
55              "\u00C1\u00E1\u00C9\u00E9\u00CD\u00ED\u00D3\u00F3\u00DA\u00FA\u00DD\u00FD" +
56              "\u00C2\u00E2\u00CA\u00EA\u00CE\u00EE\u00D4\u00F4\u00DB\u00FB\u0176\u0177" +
57              "\u00C3\u00E3\u00D5\u00F5\u00D1\u00F1" +
58              "\u00C4\u00E4\u00CB\u00EB\u00CF\u00EF\u00D6\u00F6\u00DC\u00FC\u0178\u00FF" +
59              "\u00C5\u00E5" + "\u00C7\u00E7" + "\u0150\u0151\u0170\u0171";
60  
61      private static final String[] DOUBLE_CONSONANT =
62              { "BB", "CC", "DD", "FF", "GG", "HH", "JJ", "KK", "LL", "MM", "NN", "PP", "QQ", "RR", "SS",
63                     "TT", "VV", "WW", "XX", "YY", "ZZ" };
64  
65      /**
66       * Constructs a new instance.
67       */
68      public MatchRatingApproachEncoder() {
69          // empty
70      }
71  
72      /**
73       * Cleans up a name: 1. Upper-cases everything 2. Removes some common punctuation 3. Removes accents 4. Removes any
74       * spaces.
75       *
76       * <h2>API Usage</h2>
77       * <p>
78       * Consider this method private, it is package protected for unit testing only.
79       * </p>
80       *
81       * @param name
82       *            The name to be cleaned
83       * @return The cleaned name
84       */
85      String cleanName(final String name) {
86          String upperName = name.toUpperCase(Locale.ENGLISH);
87  
88          final String[] charsToTrim = { "\\-", "[&]", "\\'", "\\.", "[\\,]" };
89          for (final String str : charsToTrim) {
90              upperName = upperName.replaceAll(str, EMPTY);
91          }
92  
93          upperName = removeAccents(upperName);
94          return upperName.replaceAll("\\s+", EMPTY);
95      }
96  
97      /**
98       * Encodes an Object using the Match Rating Approach algorithm. Method is here to satisfy the requirements of the
99       * Encoder interface Throws an EncoderException if input object is not of type {@link String}.
100      *
101      * @param pObject
102      *            Object to encode
103      * @return An object (or type {@link String}) containing the Match Rating Approach code which corresponds to the
104      *         String supplied.
105      * @throws EncoderException
106      *             if the parameter supplied is not of type {@link String}
107      */
108     @Override
109     public final Object encode(final Object pObject) throws EncoderException {
110         if (!(pObject instanceof String)) {
111             throw new EncoderException(
112                     "Parameter supplied to Match Rating Approach encoder is not of type java.lang.String");
113         }
114         return encode((String) pObject);
115     }
116 
117     /**
118      * Encodes a String using the Match Rating Approach (MRA) algorithm.
119      *
120      * @param name
121      *            String object to encode
122      * @return The MRA code corresponding to the String supplied
123      */
124     @Override
125     public final String encode(String name) {
126         // Bulletproof for trivial input - NINO
127         if (name == null || EMPTY.equalsIgnoreCase(name) || SPACE.equalsIgnoreCase(name) || name.length() == 1) {
128             return EMPTY;
129         }
130 
131         // Preprocessing
132         name = cleanName(name);
133 
134         // Bulletproof if name becomes empty after cleanName(name)
135         if (SPACE.equals(name) || name.isEmpty()) {
136             return EMPTY;
137         }
138 
139         // BEGIN: Actual encoding part of the algorithm...
140         // 1. Delete all vowels unless the vowel begins the word
141         name = removeVowels(name);
142 
143         // Bulletproof if name becomes empty after removeVowels(name)
144         if (SPACE.equals(name) || name.isEmpty()) {
145             return EMPTY;
146         }
147 
148         // 2. Remove second consonant from any double consonant
149         name = removeDoubleConsonants(name);
150 
151         return getFirst3Last3(name);
152     }
153 
154     /**
155      * Gets the first and last 3 letters of a name (if &gt; 6 characters) Else just returns the name.
156      *
157      * <h2>API Usage</h2>
158      * <p>
159      * Consider this method private, it is package protected for unit testing only.
160      * </p>
161      *
162      * @param name
163      *            The string to get the substrings from
164      * @return Annexed first and last 3 letters of input word.
165      */
166     String getFirst3Last3(final String name) {
167         final int nameLength = name.length();
168 
169         if (nameLength > 6) {
170             final String firstThree = name.substring(0, 3);
171             final String lastThree = name.substring(nameLength - 3, nameLength);
172             return firstThree + lastThree;
173         }
174         return name;
175     }
176 
177     /**
178      * Obtains the min rating of the length sum of the 2 names. In essence the larger the sum length the smaller the
179      * min rating. Values strictly from documentation.
180      *
181      * <h2>API Usage</h2>
182      * <p>
183      * Consider this method private, it is package protected for unit testing only.
184      * </p>
185      *
186      * @param sumLength
187      *            The length of 2 strings sent down
188      * @return The min rating value
189      */
190     int getMinRating(final int sumLength) {
191         int minRating = 0;
192 
193         if (sumLength <= 4) {
194             minRating = 5;
195         } else if (sumLength <= 7) { // already know it is at least 5
196             minRating = 4;
197         } else if (sumLength <= 11) { // already know it is at least 8
198             minRating = 3;
199         } else if (sumLength == 12) {
200             minRating = 2;
201         } else {
202             minRating = 1; // docs said little here.
203         }
204 
205         return minRating;
206     }
207 
208     /**
209      * Determines if two names are homophonous via Match Rating Approach (MRA) algorithm. It should be noted that the
210      * strings are cleaned in the same way as {@link #encode(String)}.
211      *
212      * @param name1
213      *            First of the 2 strings (names) to compare
214      * @param name2
215      *            Second of the 2 names to compare
216      * @return {@code true} if the encodings are identical {@code false} otherwise.
217      */
218     public boolean isEncodeEquals(String name1, String name2) {
219         // Bulletproof for trivial input - NINO
220         if (name1 == null || EMPTY.equalsIgnoreCase(name1) || SPACE.equalsIgnoreCase(name1)) {
221             return false;
222         }
223         if (name2 == null || EMPTY.equalsIgnoreCase(name2) || SPACE.equalsIgnoreCase(name2)) {
224             return false;
225         }
226         if (name1.length() == 1 || name2.length() == 1) {
227             return false;
228         }
229         if (name1.equalsIgnoreCase(name2)) {
230             return true;
231         }
232 
233         // Preprocessing
234         name1 = cleanName(name1);
235         name2 = cleanName(name2);
236 
237         // Actual MRA Algorithm
238 
239         // 1. Remove vowels
240         name1 = removeVowels(name1);
241         name2 = removeVowels(name2);
242 
243         // 2. Remove double consonants
244         name1 = removeDoubleConsonants(name1);
245         name2 = removeDoubleConsonants(name2);
246 
247         // 3. Reduce down to 3 letters
248         name1 = getFirst3Last3(name1);
249         name2 = getFirst3Last3(name2);
250 
251         // 4. Check for length difference - if 3 or greater, then no similarity
252         // comparison is done
253         if (Math.abs(name1.length() - name2.length()) >= 3) {
254             return false;
255         }
256 
257         // 5. Obtain the minimum rating value by calculating the length sum of the
258         // encoded Strings and sending it down.
259         final int sumLength = Math.abs(name1.length() + name2.length());
260         final int minRating = getMinRating(sumLength);
261 
262         // 6. Process the encoded Strings from left to right and remove any
263         // identical characters found from both Strings respectively.
264         final int count = leftToRightThenRightToLeftProcessing(name1, name2);
265 
266         // 7. Each PNI item that has a similarity rating equal to or greater than
267         // the min is considered to be a good candidate match
268         return count >= minRating;
269 
270     }
271 
272     /**
273      * Determines if a letter is a vowel.
274      *
275      * <h2>API Usage</h2>
276      * <p>
277      * Consider this method private, it is package protected for unit testing only.
278      * </p>
279      *
280      * @param letter
281      *            The letter under investigation
282      * @return True if a vowel, else false
283      */
284     boolean isVowel(final String letter) {
285         return letter.equalsIgnoreCase("E") || letter.equalsIgnoreCase("A") || letter.equalsIgnoreCase("O") ||
286                letter.equalsIgnoreCase("I") || letter.equalsIgnoreCase("U");
287     }
288 
289     /**
290      * Processes the names from left to right (first) then right to left removing identical letters in same positions.
291      * Then subtracts the longer string that remains from 6 and returns this.
292      *
293      * <h2>API Usage</h2>
294      * <p>
295      * Consider this method private, it is package protected for unit testing only.
296      * </p>
297      *
298      * @param name1
299      *            name2
300      * @return the length as above
301      */
302     int leftToRightThenRightToLeftProcessing(final String name1, final String name2) {
303         final char[] name1Char = name1.toCharArray();
304         final char[] name2Char = name2.toCharArray();
305 
306         final int name1Size = name1.length() - 1;
307         final int name2Size = name2.length() - 1;
308 
309         String name1LtRStart = EMPTY;
310         String name1LtREnd = EMPTY;
311 
312         String name2RtLStart = EMPTY;
313         String name2RtLEnd = EMPTY;
314 
315         for (int i = 0; i < name1Char.length; i++) {
316             if (i > name2Size) {
317                 break;
318             }
319 
320             name1LtRStart = name1.substring(i, i + 1);
321             name1LtREnd = name1.substring(name1Size - i, name1Size - i + 1);
322 
323             name2RtLStart = name2.substring(i, i + 1);
324             name2RtLEnd = name2.substring(name2Size - i, name2Size - i + 1);
325 
326             // Left to right...
327             if (name1LtRStart.equals(name2RtLStart)) {
328                 name1Char[i] = ' ';
329                 name2Char[i] = ' ';
330             }
331 
332             // Right to left...
333             if (name1LtREnd.equals(name2RtLEnd)) {
334                 name1Char[name1Size - i] = ' ';
335                 name2Char[name2Size - i] = ' ';
336             }
337         }
338 
339         // Char arrays -> string & remove extraneous space
340         final String strA = new String(name1Char).replaceAll("\\s+", EMPTY);
341         final String strB = new String(name2Char).replaceAll("\\s+", EMPTY);
342 
343         // Final bit - subtract the longest string from 6 and return this int value
344         if (strA.length() > strB.length()) {
345             return Math.abs(6 - strA.length());
346         }
347         return Math.abs(6 - strB.length());
348     }
349 
350     /**
351      * Removes accented letters and replaces with non-accented ASCII equivalent Case is preserved.
352      * http://www.codecodex.com/wiki/Remove_accent_from_letters_%28ex_.%C3%A9_to_e%29
353      *
354      * @param accentedWord
355      *            The word that may have accents in it.
356      * @return De-accented word
357      */
358     String removeAccents(final String accentedWord) {
359         if (accentedWord == null) {
360             return null;
361         }
362 
363         final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
364         final int n = accentedWord.length();
365 
366         for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
367             final char c = accentedWord.charAt(i);
368             final int pos = UNICODE.indexOf(c);
369             if (pos > -1) {
370                 sb.append(PLAIN_ASCII.charAt(pos));
371             } else {
372                 sb.append(c);
373             }
374         }
375 
376         return sb.toString();
377     }
378 
379     /**
380      * Replaces any double consonant pair with the single letter equivalent.
381      *
382      * <h2>API Usage</h2>
383      * <p>
384      * Consider this method private, it is package protected for unit testing only.
385      * </p>
386      *
387      * @param name
388      *            String to have double consonants removed
389      * @return Single consonant word
390      */
391     String removeDoubleConsonants(final String name) {
392         String replacedName = name.toUpperCase(Locale.ENGLISH);
393         for (final String dc : DOUBLE_CONSONANT) {
394             if (replacedName.contains(dc)) {
395                 final String singleLetter = dc.substring(0, 1);
396                 replacedName = replacedName.replace(dc, singleLetter);
397             }
398         }
399         return replacedName;
400     }
401 
402     /**
403      * Deletes all vowels unless the vowel begins the word.
404      *
405      * <h2>API Usage</h2>
406      * <p>
407      * Consider this method private, it is package protected for unit testing only.
408      * </p>
409      *
410      * @param name
411      *            The name to have vowels removed
412      * @return De-voweled word
413      */
414     String removeVowels(String name) {
415         // Extract first letter
416         final String firstLetter = name.substring(0, 1);
417 
418         name = name.replace("A", EMPTY);
419         name = name.replace("E", EMPTY);
420         name = name.replace("I", EMPTY);
421         name = name.replace("O", EMPTY);
422         name = name.replace("U", EMPTY);
423 
424         name = name.replaceAll("\\s{2,}\\b", SPACE);
425 
426         // return isVowel(firstLetter) ? (firstLetter + name) : name;
427         if (isVowel(firstLetter)) {
428             return firstLetter + name;
429         }
430         return name;
431     }
432 }