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//=============================================================================
//
// File coll.h
//
//
//
// Created by: Helena Shih
//
// Modification History:
//
// Date Name Description
// 02/5/97 aliu Modified createDefault to load collation data from
// binary files when possible. Added related methods
// createCollationFromFile, chopLocale, createPathName.
// 02/11/97 aliu Added members addToCache, findInCache, and fgCache.
// 02/12/97 aliu Modified to create objects from RuleBasedCollator cache.
// Moved cache out of Collation class.
// 02/13/97 aliu Moved several methods out of this class and into
// RuleBasedCollator, with modifications. Modified
// createDefault() to call new RuleBasedCollator(Locale&)
// constructor. General clean up and documentation.
// 02/20/97 helena Added clone, operator==, operator!=, operator=, copy
// constructor and getDynamicClassID.
// 03/25/97 helena Updated with platform independent data types.
// 05/06/97 helena Added memory allocation error detection.
// 6/20/97 helena Java class name change.
// 09/03/97 helena Added createCollationKeyValues().
// 02/10/98 damiba Added compare() with length as parameter.
// 04/23/99 stephen Removed EDecompositionMode, merged with
// Normalizer::EMode.
// 11/02/99 helena Collator performance enhancements. Eliminates the
// UnicodeString construction and special case for NO_OP.
// 11/23/99 srl More performance enhancements. Inlining of
// critical accessors.
//=============================================================================
#ifndef COLL_H
#define COLL_H
#include "unicode/locid.h"
#include "unicode/utypes.h"
#include "unicode/unistr.h"
#include "unicode/normlzr.h"
class CollationKey;
/**
* The <code>Collator</code> class performs locale-sensitive
* <code>String</code> comparison. You use this class to build
* searching and sorting routines for natural language text.
*
* <p>
* <code>Collator</code> is an abstract base class. Subclasses
* implement specific collation strategies. One subclass,
* <code>RuleBasedCollator</code>, is currently provided
* and is applicable to a wide set of languages. Other
* subclasses may be created to handle more specialized needs.
*
* <p>
* Like other locale-sensitive classes, you can use the static
* factory method, <code>getInstance</code>, to obtain the appropriate
* <code>Collator</code> object for a given locale. You will only need
* to look at the subclasses of <code>Collator</code> if you need
* to understand the details of a particular collation strategy or
* if you need to modify that strategy.
*
* <p>
* The following example shows how to compare two strings using
* the <code>Collator</code> for the default locale.
* <blockquote>
* <pre>
* // Compare two strings in the default locale
* UErrorCode success = U_ZERO_ERROR;
* Collator* myCollator = Collator::createInstance(success);
* if( myCollator->compare("abc", "ABC") &lt; 0 ) {
* cout &lt;&lt; "abc is less than ABC" &lt;&lt; endl;
* }else{
* cout &lt;&lt; "abc is greater than or equal to ABC" &lt;&lt; endl;
* }
* </pre>
* </blockquote>
*
* <p>
* You can set a <code>Collator</code>'s <em>strength</em> property
* to determine the level of difference considered significant in
* comparisons. Four strengths are provided: <code>PRIMARY</code>,
* <code>SECONDARY</code>, <code>TERTIARY</code>, and <code>IDENTICAL</code>.
* The exact assignment of strengths to language features is
* locale dependant. For example, in Czech, "e" and "f" are considered
* primary differences, while "e" and "\u00EA" are secondary differences,
* "e" and "E" are tertiary differences and "e" and "e" are identical.
* The following shows how both case and accents could be ignored for
* US English.
* <blockquote>
* <pre>
* //Get the Collator for US English and set its strength to PRIMARY
* UErrorCode success = U_ZERO_ERROR;
* Collator* usCollator = Collator::createInstance(Locale::US, success);
* usCollator->setStrength(Collator::PRIMARY);
* if( usCollator->compare("abc", "ABC") == 0 ) {
* cout &lt;&lt; "'abc' and 'ABC' strings are equivalent with strength PRIMARY" &lt;&lt; endl;
* }
* </pre>
* </blockquote>
* <p>
* For comparing <code>String</code>s exactly once, the <code>compare</code>
* method provides the best performance. When sorting a list of
* <code>String</code>s however, it is generally necessary to compare each
* <code>String</code> multiple times. In this case, <code>CollationKey</code>s
* provide better performance. The <code>CollationKey</code> class converts
* a <code>String</code> to a series of bits that can be compared bitwise
* against other <code>CollationKey</code>s. A <code>CollationKey</code> is
* created by a <code>Collator</code> object for a given <code>String</code>.
* <p>
* <strong>Note:</strong> <code>Collator</code>s with different Locale,
* CollationStrength and DecompositionMode settings will return different
* sort orders for the same set of strings. Locales have specific
* collation rules, and the way in which secondary and tertiary differences
* are taken into account, for example, will result in a different sorting order
* for same strings.
* <p>
*
* @see RuleBasedCollator
* @see CollationKey
* @see CollationElementIterator
* @see Locale
* @see Normalizer
* @version 1.7 1/14/97
* @author Helena Shih
*/
class U_I18N_API Collator {
public:
/**
* Base letter represents a primary difference. Set comparison
* level to PRIMARY to ignore secondary and tertiary differences.
* Use this to set the strength of a Collator object.
* Example of primary difference, "abc" &lt; "abd"
*
* Diacritical differences on the same base letter represent a secondary
* difference. Set comparison level to SECONDARY to ignore tertiary
* differences. Use this to set the strength of a Collator object.
* Example of secondary difference, "ä" >> "a".
*
* Uppercase and lowercase versions of the same character represents a
* tertiary difference. Set comparison level to TERTIARY to include
* all comparison differences. Use this to set the strength of a Collator
* object.
* Example of tertiary difference, "abc" &lt;&lt;&lt; "ABC".
*
* Two characters are considered "identical" when they have the same
* unicode spellings.
* For example, "ä" == "ä".
*
* ECollationStrength is also used to determine the strength of sort keys
* generated from Collator objects.
*/
enum ECollationStrength {
PRIMARY = 0,
SECONDARY = 1,
TERTIARY = 2,
IDENTICAL = 3
};
/**
* LESS is returned if source string is compared to be less than target
* string in the compare() method.
* EQUAL is returned if source string is compared to be equal to target
* string in the compare() method.
* GREATER is returned if source string is compared to be greater than
* target string in the compare() method.
* @see Collator#compare
*/
enum EComparisonResult {
LESS = -1,
EQUAL = 0,
GREATER = 1
};
/**
* Destructor
*/
virtual ~Collator();
/**
* Returns true if "other" is the same as "this"
*/
virtual bool_t operator==(const Collator& other) const;
/**
* Returns true if "other" is not the same as "this".
*/
virtual bool_t operator!=(const Collator& other) const;
/**
* Makes a shallow copy of the current object.
*/
virtual Collator* clone(void) const = 0;
/**
* Creates the collator object for the current default locale.
* The default locale is determined by Locale::getDefault.
* @return the collation object of the default locale.(for example, en_US)
* @see Locale#getDefault
* The UErrorCode& err parameter is used to return status information to the user.
* To check whether the construction succeeded or not, you should check
* the value of U_SUCCESS(err). If you wish more detailed information, you
* can check for informational error results which still indicate success.
* U_USING_FALLBACK_ERROR indicates that a fall back locale was used. For
* example, 'de_CH' was requested, but nothing was found there, so 'de' was
* used. U_USING_DEFAULT_ERROR indicates that the default locale data was
* used; neither the requested locale nor any of its fall back locales
* could be found.
* The caller owns the returned object and is responsible for deleting it.
*/
static Collator* createInstance( UErrorCode& err);
/**
* Gets the table-based collation object for the desired locale. The
* resource of the desired locale will be loaded by ResourceLoader.
* Locale::ENGLISH is the base collation table and all other languages are
* built on top of it with additional language-specific modifications.
* @param desiredLocale the desired locale to create the collation table
* with.
* @return the created table-based collation object based on the desired
* locale.
* @see Locale
* @see ResourceLoader
* The UErrorCode& err parameter is used to return status information to the user.
* To check whether the construction succeeded or not, you should check
* the value of U_SUCCESS(err). If you wish more detailed information, you
* can check for informational error results which still indicate success.
* U_USING_FALLBACK_ERROR indicates that a fall back locale was used. For
* example, 'de_CH' was requested, but nothing was found there, so 'de' was
* used. U_USING_DEFAULT_ERROR indicates that the default locale data was
* used; neither the requested locale nor any of its fall back locales
* could be found.
* The caller owns the returned object and is responsible for deleting it.
*/
static Collator* createInstance( const Locale& loc,
UErrorCode& err);
// comparison
/**
* The comparison function compares the character data stored in two
* different strings. Returns information about whether a string
* is less than, greater than or equal to another string.
* <p>Example of use:
* <pre>
* . UErrorCode status = U_ZERO_ERROR;
* . Collator *myCollation = Collator::createInstance(Locale::US, status);
* . if (U_FAILURE(status)) return;
* . myCollation->setStrength(Collator::PRIMARY);
* . // result would be Collator::EQUAL ("abc" == "ABC")
* . // (no primary difference between "abc" and "ABC")
* . Collator::EComparisonResult result = myCollation->compare("abc", "ABC");
* . myCollation->setStrength(Collator::TERTIARY);
* . // result would be Collator::LESS (abc" &lt;&lt;&lt; "ABC")
* . // (with tertiary difference between "abc" and "ABC")
* . Collator::EComparisonResult result = myCollation->compare("abc", "ABC");
* </pre>
* @param source the source string to be compared with.
* @param target the string that is to be compared with the source string.
* @return Returns a byte value. GREATER if source is greater
* than target; EQUAL if source is equal to target; LESS if source is less
* than target
**/
virtual EComparisonResult compare( const UnicodeString& source,
const UnicodeString& target) const = 0;
/**
* Does the same thing as compare but limits the comparison to a specified length
* <p>Example of use:
* <pre>
* . UErrorCode status = U_ZERO_ERROR;
* . Collator *myCollation = Collator::createInstance(Locale::US, status);
* . if (U_FAILURE(status)) return;
* . myCollation->setStrength(Collator::PRIMARY);
* . // result would be Collator::EQUAL ("abc" == "ABC")
* . // (no primary difference between "abc" and "ABC")
* . Collator::EComparisonResult result = myCollation->compare("abc", "ABC",3);
* . myCollation->setStrength(Collator::TERTIARY);
* . // result would be Collator::LESS (abc" &lt;&lt;&lt; "ABC")
* . // (with tertiary difference between "abc" and "ABC")
* . Collator::EComparisonResult result = myCollation->compare("abc", "ABC",3);
* </pre>
* @param source the source string to be compared with.
* @param target the string that is to be compared with the source string.
* @param length the length the comparison is limitted to
* @return Returns a byte value. GREATER if source (up to the specified length) is greater
* than target; EQUAL if source (up to specified length) is equal to target; LESS if source
* (up to the specified length) is less than target.
**/
virtual EComparisonResult compare( const UnicodeString& source,
const UnicodeString& target,
int32_t length) const = 0;
/**
* The comparison function compares the character data stored in two
* different string arrays. Returns information about whether a string
* array is less than, greater than or equal to another string array.
* <p>Example of use:
* <pre>
* . UErrorCode status = U_ZERO_ERROR;
* . Collator *myCollation = Collator::createInstance(Locale::US, status);
* . if (U_FAILURE(status)) return;
* . myCollation->setStrength(Collator::PRIMARY);
* . // result would be Collator::EQUAL ("abc" == "ABC")
* . // (no primary difference between "abc" and "ABC")
* . Collator::EComparisonResult result = myCollation->compare(L"abc", 3, L"ABC", 3);
* . myCollation->setStrength(Collator::TERTIARY);
* . // result would be Collator::LESS (abc" &lt;&lt;&lt; "ABC")
* . // (with tertiary difference between "abc" and "ABC")
* . Collator::EComparisonResult result = myCollation->compare(L"abc", 3, L"ABC", 3);
* </pre>
* @param source the source string array to be compared with.
* @param sourceLength the length of the source string array. If this value
* is equal to -1, the string array is null-terminated.
* @param target the string that is to be compared with the source string.
* @param targetLength the length of the target string array. If this value
* is equal to -1, the string array is null-terminated.
* @return Returns a byte value. GREATER if source is greater
* than target; EQUAL if source is equal to target; LESS if source is less
* than target
**/
virtual EComparisonResult compare( const UChar* source,
int32_t sourceLength,
const UChar* target,
int32_t targetLength) const = 0;
/** Transforms the string into a series of characters that can be compared
* with CollationKey::compareTo. It is not possible to restore the original
* string from the chars in the sort key. The generated sort key handles
* only a limited number of ignorable characters.
* <p>Use CollationKey::equals or CollationKey::compare to compare the
* generated sort keys.
* <p>Example of use:
* <pre>
* . UErrorCode status = U_ZERO_ERROR;
* . Collator *myCollation = Collator::createInstance(Locale::US, status);
* . if (U_FAILURE(status)) return;
* . myCollation->setStrength(Collator::PRIMARY);
* . UErrorCode key1Status, key2Status;
* . CollationKey CollationKey1
* . CollationKey1 = myCollation->getCollationKey("abc", CollationKey1, key1Status);
* . CollationKey CollationKey2
* . CollationKey2 = myCollation->getCollationKey("ABC", CollationKey2, key2Status);
* . if (U_FAILURE(key1Status) || U_FAILURE(key2Status)) { delete myCollation; return; }
* . // Use CollationKey::compare() to compare the sort keys
* . // result would be 0 (CollationKey1 == CollationKey2)
* . int result = CollationKey1.compare(CollationKey2);
* . myCollation->setStrength(Collator::TERTIARY);
* . CollationKey1 = myCollation->getCollationKey("abc", CollationKey1, key1Status);
* . CollationKey2 = myCollation->getCollationKey("ABC", CollationKey2, key2Status);
* . if (U_FAILURE(key1Status) || U_FAILURE(key2Status)) { delete myCollation; return; }
* . // Use CollationKey::compareTo to compare the collation keys
* . // result would be -1 (CollationKey1 &lt; CollationKey2)
* . result = CollationKey1.compareTo(CollationKey2);
* . delete myCollation;
* </pre>
* <p>If the source string is null, a null collation key will be returned.
* @param source the source string to be transformed into a sort key.
* @param key the collation key to be filled in
* @return the collation key of the string based on the collation rules.
* @see CollationKey#compare
*/
virtual CollationKey& getCollationKey(const UnicodeString& source,
CollationKey& key,
UErrorCode& status) const = 0;
/** Transforms the string into a series of characters that can be compared
* with CollationKey::compareTo. It is not possible to restore the original
* string from the chars in the sort key. The generated sort key handles
* only a limited number of ignorable characters.
* <p>Use CollationKey::equals or CollationKey::compare to compare the
* generated sort keys.
* <p>If the source string is null, a null collation key will be returned.
* @param source the source string to be transformed into a sort key.
* @param sourceLength length of the collation key
* @param key the collation key to be filled in
* @return the collation key of the string based on the collation rules.
* @see CollationKey#compare
*/
virtual CollationKey& getCollationKey(const UChar *source,
int32_t sourceLength,
CollationKey& key,
UErrorCode& status) const = 0;
/**
* Generates the hash code for the collation object
*/
virtual int32_t hashCode(void) const = 0;
/**
* Convenience method for comparing two strings based on
* the collation rules.
* @param source the source string to be compared with.
* @param target the target string to be compared with.
* @return true if the first string is greater than the second one,
* according to the collation rules. false, otherwise.
* @see Collator#compare
*/
bool_t greater( const UnicodeString& source,
const UnicodeString& target) const;
/**
* Convenience method for comparing two strings based on the collation
* rules.
* @param source the source string to be compared with.
* @param target the target string to be compared with.
* @return true if the first string is greater than or equal to the
* second one, according to the collation rules. false, otherwise.
* @see Collator#compare
*/
bool_t greaterOrEqual( const UnicodeString& source,
const UnicodeString& target) const;
/**
* Convenience method for comparing two strings based on the collation
* rules.
* @param source the source string to be compared with.
* @param target the target string to be compared with.
* @return true if the strings are equal according to the collation
* rules. false, otherwise.
* @see Collator#compare
*/
bool_t equals( const UnicodeString& source,
const UnicodeString& target) const;
// getter/setter
/**
* Get the decomposition mode of the collator object.
* @return the decomposition mode
* @see Collator#setDecomposition
*/
Normalizer::EMode getDecomposition(void) const;
/**
* Set the decomposition mode of the collator object. success is equal
* to U_ILLEGAL_ARGUMENT_ERROR if error occurs.
* @param the new decomposition mode
* @see Collator#getDecomposition
*/
void setDecomposition(Normalizer::EMode mode);
/**
* Determines the minimum strength that will be use in comparison or
* transformation.
* <p>E.g. with strength == SECONDARY, the tertiary difference is ignored
* <p>E.g. with strength == PRIMARY, the secondary and tertiary difference
* are ignored.
* @return the current comparison level.
* @see Collator#setStrength
*/
ECollationStrength getStrength(void) const;
/**
* Sets the minimum strength to be used in comparison or transformation.
* <p>Example of use:
* <pre>
* . UErrorCode status = U_ZERO_ERROR;
* . Collator *myCollation = Collator::createInstance(Locale::US, status);
* . if (U_FAILURE(status)) return;
* . myCollation->setStrength(Collator::PRIMARY);
* . // result will be "abc" == "ABC"
* . // tertiary differences will be ignored
* . Collator::ComparisonResult result = myCollation->compare("abc", "ABC");
* </pre>
* @see Collator#getStrength
* @param newStrength the new comparison level.
*/
void setStrength( ECollationStrength newStrength);
/**
* Get name of the object for the desired Locale, in the desired langauge
* @param objectLocale must be from getAvailableLocales
* @param displayLocale specifies the desired locale for output
* @param name the fill-in parameter of the return value
* @return display-able name of the object for the object locale in the
* desired language
*/
static UnicodeString& getDisplayName( const Locale& objectLocale,
const Locale& displayLocale,
UnicodeString& name) ;
/**
* Get name of the object for the desired Locale, in the langauge of the
* default locale.
* @param objectLocale must be from getAvailableLocales
* @param name the fill-in parameter of the return value
* @return name of the object for the desired locale in the default
* language
*/
static UnicodeString& getDisplayName( const Locale& objectLocale,
UnicodeString& name) ;
/**
* Get the set of Locales for which Collations are installed
* @param count the output parameter of number of elements in the locale list
* @return the list of available locales which collations are installed
*/
static const Locale* getAvailableLocales(int32_t& count);
/**
* Returns a unique class ID POLYMORPHICALLY. Pure virtual method.
* This method is to implement a simple version of RTTI, since not all
* C++ compilers support genuine RTTI. Polymorphic operator==() and
* clone() methods call this method.
*
* Concrete subclasses of Format must implement getDynamicClassID()
* and also a static method and data member:
*
* static UClassID getStaticClassID() { return (UClassID)&fgClassID; }
* static char fgClassID;
*
* @return The class ID for this object. All objects of a
* given class have the same class ID. Objects of
* other classes have different class IDs.
*/
virtual UClassID getDynamicClassID(void) const = 0;
protected:
/**
* Constructors
*/
Collator();
Collator(ECollationStrength collationStrength,
Normalizer::EMode decompositionMode);
Collator(const Collator& other);
/**
* Assignment operator
*/
const Collator& operator=(const Collator& other);
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
private:
ECollationStrength strength;
Normalizer::EMode decmp;
};
inline bool_t
Collator::operator==(const Collator& other) const
{
bool_t result;
if (this == &other) result = TRUE;
else result = ((strength == other.strength) && (decmp == other.decmp));
return result;
}
inline bool_t
Collator::operator!=(const Collator& other) const
{
bool_t result;
result = !(*this == other);
return result;
}
inline Collator::ECollationStrength
Collator::getStrength() const
{
return strength;
}
inline Normalizer::EMode
Collator::getDecomposition() const
{
return decmp;
}
#endif