CharAna is a simple character analyzer, written in Java. It accepts a sequence of characters, or in other words, a string. It can be useful to know:
- What code points the string consists of (漢字 → <U+6F22, U+5B57>)
- What the code point notation represents (<U+6F22, U+5B57> → 漢字)
- What is the escaped form of the string (漢字 → \u6F22\u5B57)
- What are the characters the escaped string represents (\u6F22\u5B57 → 漢字)
- What are the possible encodings for the string (漢字 → UTF-8:e6bca2e5ad97)
- What characters the hexadecimal string represents (e6bca2e5ad97 → UTF-8:漢字)
- What characters contain the name (calendar → 📅,📆,🗓)
CharAna Core is a library of analytical methods for a string. It's just a thin wrapper of standard Java APIs. The library is used from CharAna CLI and Web.
Go to the charana-core directory, and install it with Maven. Since the CLI and Web mentioned below depend on this core library, mvn package will not suffice.
cd charana/charana-core
mvn install
CharAna CLI is a simple command-line interface for CharAna.
Go to the charana-cli directory, and build with mvn package.
cd charana/charana-cli
mvn package
Go to the target directory under charana-cli.
cd charana/charana-cli/target
There should be two JARs. charana-cli-x.x.x.jar contains only a small main class, which requires several depending JARs to be executed. charana-cli-x.x.x-jar-with-dependencies.jar is a "fat" JAR, which contains all necessary classes to go. So basically you can use the latter one. It takes a variable number of strings to analyze as arguments.
java -jar charana-cli-*-jar-with-dependencies.jar 漢字
CharAna Web is a web application interface, and REST APIs for CharAna.
Go to the charana-web directory, and build with mvn package.
cd charana/charana-web
mvn package
Go to the target directory under charana-web.
cd charana/charana-web/target
Just kick the "fat" JAR to start a web server.
java -jar charana-web-x.x.x.jar
You can get to the web page through the URL.
http://localhost:8080/