How to use a Lucene Analyzer to tokenize a String?

Question

Is there a simple way I could use any subclass of Lucene's Analyzer to parse/tokenize a String?

Something like:

String to_be_parsed = "car window seven";
Analyzer analyzer = new StandardAnalyzer(...);
List<String> tokenized_string = analyzer.analyze(to_be_parsed);

Answer 1

As far as I know, you have to write the loop yourself. Something like this (taken straight from my source tree):

public final class LuceneUtils {

    public static List<String> parseKeywords(Analyzer analyzer, String field, String keywords) {

        List<String> result = new ArrayList<String>();
        TokenStream stream  = analyzer.tokenStream(field, new StringReader(keywords));

        try {
            while(stream.incrementToken()) {
                result.add(stream.getAttribute(TermAttribute.class).term());
            }
        }
        catch(IOException e) {
            // not thrown b/c we're using a string reader...
        }

        return result;
    }  
}