oracle.ultrasearch.crawler
Interface UrlRewriter

public interface UrlRewriter

UrlRewriter is an interface for crawler user to rewrite the url links extracted from the web page

Method Summary

void	close() Close url rewriter
void	open(java.io.PrintWriter log) Open url rewriter
boolean	rewrite(UrlCandidate candidate) rewrite the submitted url

Method Detail

open

public void open(java.io.PrintWriter log)
          throws UrlRewriteException

Open url rewriter

Parameters:

log - the crawler log file

Throws:

UrlRewriteException - if error

close

public void close()
           throws UrlRewriteException

Close url rewriter

Throws:

UrlRewriteException - if error

rewrite

public boolean rewrite(UrlCandidate candidate)
                throws UrlRewriteException

rewrite the submitted url

Parameters:

candidate - the target url string

Returns:

true if url has been rewritten, false if no change

Throws:

UrlRewriteException - if error