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Uwe Schindler resolved LUCENE-6879.
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    Resolution: Fixed
      Assignee: Uwe Schindler

Thanks for review!

> Allow to define custom CharTokenizer using Java 8 Lambdas/Method references
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>
>                 Key: LUCENE-6879
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-6879
>             Project: Lucene - Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: modules/analysis
>    Affects Versions: Trunk
>            Reporter: Uwe Schindler
>            Assignee: Uwe Schindler
>              Labels: Java8
>             Fix For: Trunk
>
>         Attachments: LUCENE-6879.patch, LUCENE-6879.patch
>
>
> As a followup from LUCENE-6874, I thought about how to generate custom 
> CharTokenizers wthout subclassing. I had this quite often and I was a bit 
> annoyed, that you had to create a subclass every time.
> This issue is using the pattern like ThreadLocal or many collection methods 
> in Java 8: You have the (abstract) base class and you define a factory method 
> named {{fromXxxPredicate}} (like {{ThreadLocal.withInitial(() -> value}}).
> {code:java}
> public static CharTokenizer 
> fromTokenCharPredicate(java.util.function.IntPredicate predicate)
> {code}
> This would allow to define a new CharTokenizer with a single line statement 
> using any predicate:
> {code:java}
> // long variant with lambda:
> Tokenizer tok = CharTokenizer.fromTokenCharPredicate(c -> 
> !UCharacter.isUWhiteSpace(c));
> // method reference for separator char predicate + normalization by 
> uppercasing:
> Tokenizer tok = 
> CharTokenizer.fromSeparatorCharPredicate(UCharacter::isUWhiteSpace, 
> Character::toUpperCase);
> // method reference to custom function:
> private boolean myTestFunction(int c) {
>  return (cracy condition);
> }
> Tokenizer tok = CharTokenizer.fromTokenCharPredicate(this::myTestFunction);
> {code}
> I know this would not help Solr users that want to define the Tokenizer in a 
> config file, but for real Lucene users this Java 8-like way would be easy and 
> elegant to use. It is fast as hell, as it is just a reference to a method and 
> Java 8 is optimized for that.
> The inverted factories {{fromSeparatorCharPredicate()}} are provided to allow 
> quick definition without lambdas using method references. In lots of cases, 
> like WhitespaceTokenizer, predicates are on the separator chars 
> ({{isWhitespace(int)}}, so using the 2nd set of factories you can define them 
> without the counter-intuitive negation. Internally it just uses 
> {{Predicate#negate()}}.
> The factories also allow to give the normalization function, e.g. to 
> Lowercase, you may just give {{Character::toLowerCase}} as 
> {{IntUnaryOperator}} reference.



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