Package crawlercommons.filters

Class URLFilter

java.lang.Object

crawlercommons.filters.URLFilter

Direct Known Subclasses:

BasicURLNormalizer

public abstract class URLFilter
extends Object

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
URLFilter()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
abstract String	filter(String urlString)	Returns a modified version of the input URL or null if the URL should be removed

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

URLFilter

public URLFilter()

Method Detail

filter

public abstract String filter(String urlString)

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

Parameters:

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

Returns:

a filtered URL