src/java/org/apache/nutch/protocol/Protocol.java

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package org.apache.nutch.protocol;

import java.util.List;

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

import org.apache.nutch.crawl.CrawlDatum;
import org.apache.nutch.plugin.Pluggable;

import crawlercommons.robots.BaseRobotRules;

/** A retriever of url content. Implemented by protocol extensions. */
public interface Protocol extends Pluggable, Configurable {
  /** The name of the extension point. */
  public final static String X_POINT_ID = Protocol.class.getName();

  /**
   * Returns the {@link Content} for a fetchlist entry.
   */
  ProtocolOutput getProtocolOutput(Text url, CrawlDatum datum);

  /**
   * Retrieve robot rules applicable for this URL.
   *
   * @param url
   *          URL to check
   * @param datum
   *          page datum
   * @param robotsTxtContent
   *          container to store responses when fetching the robots.txt file for
   *          debugging or archival purposes. Instead of a robots.txt file, it
   *          may include redirects or an error page (404, etc.). Response
   *          {@link Content} is appended to the passed list. If null is passed
   *          nothing is stored.
   * @return robot rules (specific for this URL or default), never null
   */
  BaseRobotRules getRobotRules(Text url, CrawlDatum datum,
      List<Content> robotsTxtContent);

}