xref: /packages/providers/ContactsProvider/src/com/android/providers/contacts/NameNormalizer.java

/*
 * Copyright (C) 2009 The Android Open Source Project
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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package com.android.providers.contacts;

import java.util.Locale;
import java.text.Collator;
import java.text.CollationKey;
import java.text.RuleBasedCollator;

/**
 * Converts a name to a normalized form by removing all non-letter characters and normalizing
 * UNICODE according to http://unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr15
 */
public class NameNormalizer {

    private static final RuleBasedCollator sCompressingCollator;
    static {
        sCompressingCollator = (RuleBasedCollator)Collator.getInstance(Locale.getDefault());
        sCompressingCollator.setStrength(Collator.PRIMARY);
        sCompressingCollator.setDecomposition(Collator.CANONICAL_DECOMPOSITION);
    }

    private static final RuleBasedCollator sComplexityCollator;
    static {
        sComplexityCollator = (RuleBasedCollator)Collator.getInstance(Locale.getDefault());
        sComplexityCollator.setStrength(Collator.SECONDARY);
    }

    /**
     * Converts the supplied name to a string that can be used to perform approximate matching
     * of names.  It ignores non-letter, non-digit characters, and removes accents.
     */
    public static String normalize(String name) {
        CollationKey key = sCompressingCollator.getCollationKey(lettersAndDigitsOnly(name));
        return Hex.encodeHex(key.toByteArray(), true);
    }

    /**
     * Compares "complexity" of two names, which is determined by the presence
     * of mixed case characters, accents and, if all else is equal, length.
     */
    public static int compareComplexity(String name1, String name2) {
        String clean1 = lettersAndDigitsOnly(name1);
        String clean2 = lettersAndDigitsOnly(name2);
        int diff = sComplexityCollator.compare(clean1, clean2);
        if (diff != 0) {
            return diff;
        }
        // compareTo sorts uppercase first. We know that there are no non-case
        // differences from the above test, so we can negate here to get the
        // lowercase-first comparison we really want...
        diff = -clean1.compareTo(clean2);
        if (diff != 0) {
            return diff;
        }
        return name1.length() - name2.length();
    }

    /**
     * Returns a string containing just the letters and digits from the original string.
     */
    private static String lettersAndDigitsOnly(String name) {
        char[] letters = name.toCharArray();
        int length = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < letters.length; i++) {
            final char c = letters[i];
            if (Character.isLetterOrDigit(c)) {
                letters[length++] = c;
            }
        }

        if (length != letters.length) {
            return new String(letters, 0, length);
        }

        return name;
    }
}