i'm trying to implement a lucene filter to remove a prefix from a term in a query. It seems that sometime after multiple queries, the filter has been reused so the char buffer is dirty.
Code below is simplified, prefix is an external parameter.
public static class PrefixFilter extends TokenFilter {
private final PackedTokenAttributeImpl termAtt = (PackedTokenAttributeImpl) addAttribute(CharTermAttribute.class);
public PrefixFilter(TokenStream in) {
super(in);
}
@Override
public final boolean incrementToken() throws IOException {
if (!input.incrementToken()) {
return false;
}
String value = new String(termAtt.buffer());
value = value.trim();
value = value.toLowerCase();
value = StringUtils.removeStart(value, "prefix_");
if (value.isBlank()) {
termAtt.setEmpty();
} else {
termAtt.copyBuffer(value.toCharArray(), 0, value.length());
termAtt.setLength(value.length());
}
return true;
}
}
So after 10 or twelve queries, the value "prefix_a" became "abcde".
So i'm trying to add termBuffer offset end value in this way:
termAtt.setEmpty();
termAtt.resizeBuffer(value.length());
termAtt.copyBuffer(value.toCharArray(), 0, value.length());
termAtt.setLength(value.length());
termAtt.setOffset(0, value.length());
But i don't know if it's correct. Can anyone help me?
Thanks.