ir.webutils

Class HTMLPageRetriever

java.lang.Object

ir.webutils.HTMLPageRetriever

Direct Known Subclasses:

SafeHTMLPageRetriever

public class HTMLPageRetriever
extends java.lang.Object

HTMLPageRetriever allows clients to download web pages from URLs. This is the default implementation, which performs no processing aside from downloading web pages from a URL. This class does not maintain any state, so subclasses do not need to worry about fields.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
HTMLPageRetriever() Constructs a HTMLPageRetriever object.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
HTMLPage	getHTMLPage(Link link) Downloads a web page from a given URL.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

HTMLPageRetriever

public HTMLPageRetriever()

Constructs a HTMLPageRetriever object. Subclasses wishing to behave as singletons do not need to worry about overriding the constructor.

Method Detail

getHTMLPage

public HTMLPage getHTMLPage(Link link)
                     throws PathDisallowedException

Downloads a web page from a given URL.

Parameters:

link - The Link with the URL to download the page from.

Returns:

An HTML page representing the page downloaded from the Link.

Throws:

PathDisallowedException