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+package org.apache.lucene.analysis.sinks;
+
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import java.text.DateFormat;
+import java.text.ParseException;
+import java.util.Date;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.analysis.TeeSinkTokenFilter.SinkFilter;
+import org.apache.lucene.analysis.tokenattributes.CharTermAttribute;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.AttributeSource;
+
+/**
+ * Attempts to parse the {@link org.apache.lucene.analysis.Token#termBuffer()} as a Date using a {@link java.text.DateFormat}.
+ * If the value is a Date, it will add it to the sink.
+ * <p/>
+ *
+ **/
+public class DateRecognizerSinkFilter extends SinkFilter {
+ public static final String DATE_TYPE = "date";
+
+ protected DateFormat dateFormat;
+ protected CharTermAttribute termAtt;
+
+ /**
+ * Uses {@link java.text.SimpleDateFormat#getDateInstance()} as the {@link java.text.DateFormat} object.
+ */
+ public DateRecognizerSinkFilter() {
+ this(DateFormat.getDateInstance());
+ }
+
+ public DateRecognizerSinkFilter(DateFormat dateFormat) {
+ this.dateFormat = dateFormat;
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public boolean accept(AttributeSource source) {
+ if (termAtt == null) {
+ termAtt = source.addAttribute(CharTermAttribute.class);
+ }
+ try {
+ Date date = dateFormat.parse(termAtt.toString());//We don't care about the date, just that we can parse it as a date
+ if (date != null) {
+ return true;
+ }
+ } catch (ParseException e) {
+
+ }
+
+ return false;
+ }
+
+}