Hi Gary, 2014/1/15 Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>
> 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. > Both methods return a double value modeling some kind of score. They do not encode. Maybe StringAlgorithms is the wrong name? How About StringScore or something like that? > > 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 > -- http://people.apache.org/~britter/ http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter http://github.com/britter
