Package opennlp.tools.util.jvm

Class StringInterners

java.lang.Object

opennlp.tools.util.jvm.StringInterners

public class StringInterners
extends Object

Provides string interning utility methods. Interning mechanism can be configured via the system property opennlp.interner.class by specifying an implementation via its fully qualified classname. It needs to implement StringInterner.

If not specified by the user, the default interner is CHMStringInterner.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
StringInterners()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static String	intern(String sample)	Interns and returns a reference to the representative instance for any collection of string instances that are equal to each other.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

StringInterners

public StringInterners()

Method Details

intern

public static String intern(String sample)

Interns and returns a reference to the representative instance for any collection of string instances that are equal to each other.

Parameters:

sample - string instance to be interned

Returns:

reference to the interned string instance