IdentityEncoder.cs

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using System;
using System.Text;
using Lucene.Net.Index;

namespace Lucene.Net.Analysis.Payloads
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Does nothing other than convert the char array to a byte array using the specified encoding.
    /// </summary>
    public class IdentityEncoder : AbstractEncoder, PayloadEncoder
    {

        protected internal Encoding encoding = Encoding.UTF8;
        protected internal String encodingName = "UTF-8";  //argh, stupid 1.4

        public IdentityEncoder()
        {
        }

        public IdentityEncoder(Encoding encoding)
        {
            this.encoding = encoding;
            encodingName = encoding.EncodingName;
        }


        public override Payload Encode(char[] buffer, int offset, int length)
        {
            //what's the most efficient way to get a byte [] from a char[] array
            //Do we have to go through String?
            String tmp = new String(buffer, offset, length);
            Payload result = null;//Can we avoid allocating by knowing where using the new API?
            try
            {
                result = new Payload(encoding.GetBytes(tmp));
            }
            catch (EncoderFallbackException)
            {
                //should never hit this, since we get the name from the Charset
            }

            return result;
        }
    }
}