[text-similarity-users] reading text-similarity output from java

[Antonio T. <ant...@il...>]

hi,

i'd like to use text-similarity from a java program. So from this program I 
call text-similarity and then I capture its output. This is the java code:

String command 	
= "text_similarity.pl --type=Text::Similarity::Overlaps --string \"" + 
string1 + "\" \"" + string2 + "\"";
		String result = "";
		try {
			Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command);
			int command_exit = p.waitFor();
			System.err.println("Command ended with value: " + command_exit);
			
			BufferedReader stdInput = new BufferedReader(new 
InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));
			BufferedReader stdError = new BufferedReader(new 
InputStreamReader(p.getErrorStream()));
			String s = null;
			while ((s = stdInput.readLine()) != null) {
				System.out.println("\treading result: " + s);
				result += s;
			}
			while ((s = stdError.readLine()) != null) {
		            	System.out.println("\tERROR: " + s);
        		}
		}
		catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
			System.exit(-1);
		}
		catch (InterruptedException i) {
			i.printStackTrace();
			System.exit(-2);
		}


However it does not work! I just get the string "0".

If I run text-similarity from the command line it works fine.
If I call from my java program a shell command (like "ls") or a "hello world" 
perl script then I can capture its output, so I guess the problem is somehow 
related to the way text-similarity buffers its output. I've read of people 
having this kind of issues when calling perl scripts from java and someone 
proposes as a solution to put this at the beginning of perl scripts:

use IO::Handle;
STDOUT->autoflush(1);
STDERR->autoflush(1);
[http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=189595&forumID=31]

however, I've also tried to put this at the beginning of text_similarity.pl 
but without luck!

Does anyone know how should I do?


Thanks in advance,
Antonio Toral