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package org.apache.nutch.segment;

import java.util.Collection;

import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;
import org.apache.nutch.crawl.CrawlDatum;
import org.apache.nutch.parse.ParseData;
import org.apache.nutch.parse.ParseText;
import org.apache.nutch.protocol.Content;

/**
 * Interface used to filter segments during segment merge. It allows filtering
 * on more sophisticated criteria than just URLs. In particular it allows
 * filtering based on metadata collected while parsing page.
 * 
 */
public interface SegmentMergeFilter {
  /** The name of the extension point. */
  public final static String X_POINT_ID = SegmentMergeFilter.class.getName();

  /**
   * The filtering method which gets all information being merged for a given
   * key (URL).
   * 
   * @return <tt>true</tt> values for this <tt>key</tt> (URL) should be merged
   *         into the new segment.
   */
  public boolean filter(Text key, CrawlDatum generateData,
      CrawlDatum fetchData, CrawlDatum sigData, Content content,
      ParseData parseData, ParseText parseText, Collection<CrawlDatum> linked);
}