Package crawlercommons.filters.basic

Class BasicURLNormalizer

java.lang.Object

crawlercommons.filters.URLFilter

crawlercommons.filters.basic.BasicURLNormalizer

public class BasicURLNormalizer
extends URLFilter

Code borrowed from Apache Nutch. Converts URLs to a normal form:

• remove dot segments in path: /./ or /../
• remove default ports, e.g. 80 for protocol http://
• normalize percent-encoding in URL paths

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class	Description
static class	BasicURLNormalizer.Builder	A builder class for the BasicURLNormalizer.
static class	BasicURLNormalizer.IdnNormalization

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
static org.slf4j.Logger	LOG

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
BasicURLNormalizer()
BasicURLNormalizer(BasicURLNormalizer.Builder builder)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
String	filter(String urlString)	Returns a modified version of the input URL or null if the URL should be removed
static String	formatQueryParameters(List<crawlercommons.filters.basic.BasicURLNormalizer.NameValuePair> parameters)	Formats a list of query parameter name-value pairs into a query parameter string.
static void	main(String[] args)
static BasicURLNormalizer.Builder	newBuilder()	Create a new builder object for creating a customized BasicURLNormalizer object.
static List<crawlercommons.filters.basic.BasicURLNormalizer.NameValuePair>	parseQueryParameters(String s, int queryStartIdx, Set<String> queryElementsToRemove)	Receives the URL query string and parses it into a list of name-value pairs.
static String	unescapePath(String path)	Remove % encoding from path segment in URL for characters which should be unescaped according to RFC3986.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

LOG

public static final org.slf4j.Logger LOG

Constructor Detail

BasicURLNormalizer

public BasicURLNormalizer()

BasicURLNormalizer

public BasicURLNormalizer(BasicURLNormalizer.Builder builder)

Method Detail

filter

public String filter(String urlString)

Description copied from class: URLFilter

Returns a modified version of the input URL or null if the URL should be removed

Specified by:

filter in class URLFilter

Parameters:

urlString - a URL string to check against filter(s)

Returns:

a filtered URL

parseQueryParameters

public static List<crawlercommons.filters.basic.BasicURLNormalizer.NameValuePair> parseQueryParameters(String s,
                                                                                                       int queryStartIdx,
                                                                                                       Set<String> queryElementsToRemove)

Receives the URL query string and parses it into a list of name-value pairs. Optionally, allows to remove query parameters.

Parameters:

s - a String containing the URL file (as per java.net.URL.getFile(), i.e., the path + query + fragment)

queryStartIdx - the index position of the query part in the string s.

queryElementsToRemove - a set of query parameter names to be ignored while parsing the query parameters.

formatQueryParameters

public static String formatQueryParameters(List<crawlercommons.filters.basic.BasicURLNormalizer.NameValuePair> parameters)

Formats a list of query parameter name-value pairs into a query parameter string.

Parameters:

parameters - the query parameter name-value pairs

Returns:

a URL query string

unescapePath

public static String unescapePath(String path)

Remove % encoding from path segment in URL for characters which should be unescaped according to RFC3986.

newBuilder

public static BasicURLNormalizer.Builder newBuilder()

Create a new builder object for creating a customized BasicURLNormalizer object.

Returns:

a BasicURLNormalizer.Builder ready to use

main

public static void main(String[] args)
                 throws IOException

Throws:

IOException