Metaphone or Soundex for Scala

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I have found Apache's impelementation of Soundex and Metaphone in Java but I would prefer to keep the text comparison libraries I am using in Scala only if possible. Google searches have yielded me nothing useful in finding either of these algorithms in Scala.

Worst case scenario I can translate these algorithms into Scala but that is less than ideal.

http://commons.apache.org/codec/

Java libraries are 100% compatible with Java, you want your project to be "purely" Scala or something is not working? — Tomasz Nurkiewicz, Nov 10 '12 at 19:55
It's a great question. Two things: 1. The Java library I found has dependencies, and those have dependencies. I don't want an entire 100 file library in my project just for 2 functions if I don't have to 2. I feel like things can get messy fast if our team has some related functions in java and some in scala all scattered around. I would rather reserve doing that for times when we actually have to, not for something as well-known and common as metaphone or soundex. — Commander, Nov 10 '12 at 19:59

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:30

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You are looking for Stringmetric from https://stackoverflow.com/users/554647/rocky-madden :

https://github.com/rockymadden/stringmetric

edited May 23 '17 at 12:30

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answered Nov 10 '12 at 20:13

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Commander · Answer 2 · 2012-11-10T22:11:56.797

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Not to answer my own question or anything but a viable option would be to utilize a Java library and create some companion objects in scala to help expose them more appropriately and to allow to code to document itself more effectively.

//Metaphone companion object for org.apache.commons.codec.language.Metaphone in /lib/commons-codec-1.7
object Metaphone {
  val metaphone = new Metaphone
  metaphone setMaxCodeLen 5

  def encode(str:String) : String = {
    metaphone encode str
  }
}

Implementation:

val str_meta = Metaphone encode "Starbucks"

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answered Nov 10 '12 at 20:26

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+1 That's recommended when you want to interop with a Java lib. Never call the Java api directly. They are techniques to not even wrap object and still having a descent API. – jwinandy Nov 10 '12 at 21:40

Metaphone or Soundex for Scala

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