On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 7:00 AM, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi all, > > we currently have StringUtils.getLevenshteinDistance. LANG-944 [1] is about > introducing a new string algorithm called Jaro Winkler Distance [2]. Since > StringUtils already does a lot of things, I'm wondering if it may make > sense to introduce a new class that serves as a host for more string > algorithms to come. It would look something like: > > StringAlgorithms.levenshteinDistance(str1, str2); > StringAlgorithms.jaroWinklerDistance(str1, str2); > > We would deprecate StringUtils.getLevenshteinDistance and delegate to the > new class. It could be removed from StringUtils in the next major release. > > Thoughts? > Yuck! I'd rather have once class per algo which reminds me that [codec] might be a better place for things like this that 'encode' strings into something else. Gary > Benedikt > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/i#browse/LANG-944 > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaro%E2%80%93Winkler_distance > > -- > http://people.apache.org/~britter/ > http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ > http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter > http://github.com/britter > -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition<http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
