src/java/org/apache/nutch/indexer/IndexingFilter.java

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package org.apache.nutch.indexer;

import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configurable;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;

import org.apache.nutch.parse.Parse;
import org.apache.nutch.crawl.CrawlDatum;
import org.apache.nutch.crawl.Inlinks;
import org.apache.nutch.plugin.Pluggable;

/**
 * Extension point for indexing. Permits one to add metadata to the indexed
 * fields. All plugins found which implement this extension point are run
 * sequentially on the parse.
 */
public interface IndexingFilter extends Pluggable, Configurable {
  /** The name of the extension point. */
  final static String X_POINT_ID = IndexingFilter.class.getName();

  /**
   * Adds fields or otherwise modifies the document that will be indexed for a
   * parse. Unwanted documents can be removed from indexing by returning a null
   * value.
   * 
   * @param doc
   *          document instance for collecting fields
   * @param parse
   *          parse data instance
   * @param url
   *          page url
   * @param datum
   *          crawl datum for the page (fetch datum from segment containing
   *          fetch status and fetch time)
   * @param inlinks
   *          page inlinks
   * @return modified (or a new) document instance, or null (meaning the
   *         document should be discarded)
   * @throws IndexingException
   */
  NutchDocument filter(NutchDocument doc, Parse parse, Text url,
      CrawlDatum datum, Inlinks inlinks) throws IndexingException;
}