## org.apache.lucene.collation
Class CollationAttributeFactory

    java.lang.Object
      org.apache.lucene.util.AttributeSource.AttributeFactory
          org.apache.lucene.collation.CollationAttributeFactory

    public class CollationAttributeFactory

extends AttributeSource.AttributeFactory

Converts each token into its `CollationKey`, and then encodes the bytes as an index term.

WARNING: Make sure you use exactly the same Collator at index and query time -- CollationKeys are only comparable when produced by the same Collator. Since `RuleBasedCollator`s are not independently versioned, it is unsafe to search against stored CollationKeys unless the following are exactly the same (best practice is to store this information with the index and check that they remain the same at query time):

1. JVM vendor
2. JVM version, including patch version
3. The language (and country and variant, if specified) of the Locale used when constructing the collator via `Collator.getInstance(java.util.Locale)`.
4. The collation strength used - see `Collator.setStrength(int)`

The `ICUCollationAttributeFactory` in the analysis-icu package uses ICU4J's Collator, which makes its version available, thus allowing collation to be versioned independently from the JVM. ICUCollationAttributeFactory is also significantly faster and generates significantly shorter keys than CollationAttributeFactory. See http://site.icu-project.org/charts/collation-icu4j-sun for key generation timing and key length comparisons between ICU4J and java.text.Collator over several languages.

CollationKeys generated by java.text.Collators are not compatible with those those generated by ICU Collators. Specifically, if you use CollationAttributeFactory to generate index terms, do not use ICUCollationAttributeFactory on the query side, or vice versa.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.apache.lucene.util.AttributeSource.AttributeFactory
`DEFAULT_ATTRIBUTE_FACTORY`

Constructor Summary
`CollationAttributeFactory(AttributeSource.AttributeFactory delegate, Collator collator)` Create a CollationAttributeFactory, using the supplied Attribute Factory as the factory for all other attributes.
`CollationAttributeFactory(Collator collator)` Create a CollationAttributeFactory, using `AttributeSource.AttributeFactory.DEFAULT_ATTRIBUTE_FACTORY` as the factory for all other attributes.

Method Summary
`AttributeImpl` `createAttributeInstance(Class<? extends Attribute> attClass)`

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
`clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait`

Constructor Detail

### CollationAttributeFactory

    public CollationAttributeFactory(Collator collator)

  Create a CollationAttributeFactory, using `AttributeSource.AttributeFactory.DEFAULT_ATTRIBUTE_FACTORY` as the factory for all other attributes.

  Parameters:
    `collator` - CollationKey generator

### CollationAttributeFactory

    public CollationAttributeFactory(AttributeSource.AttributeFactory delegate,
                                     Collator collator)

  Create a CollationAttributeFactory, using the supplied Attribute Factory as the factory for all other attributes.

  Parameters:
    `delegate` - Attribute Factory
    `collator` - CollationKey generator

Method Detail

### createAttributeInstance

    public AttributeImpl createAttributeInstance(Class<? extends Attribute> attClass)

  Specified by:
    `createAttributeInstance` in class `AttributeSource.AttributeFactory`

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