Package org.apache.nutch.urlfilter.fast

## Class FastURLFilter

- java.lang.Object
- - org.apache.nutch.urlfilter.fast.FastURLFilter

- All Implemented Interfaces:
    `Configurable`, `URLFilter`, `Pluggable`

      public class FastURLFilter
      extends Object
      implements URLFilter

  Filters URLs based on a file of regular expressions using host/domains matching first. The default policy is to accept a URL if no matches are found. Rule Format:

       Host www.example.org
         DenyPath /path/to/be/excluded
         DenyPath /some/other/path/excluded

       # Deny everything from *.example.com and example.com
       Domain example.com
         DenyPath .*

       Domain example.org
         DenyPathQuery /resource/.*?action=exclude

  `Host` rules are evaluated before `Domain` rules. For `Host` rules the entire host name of a URL must match while the domain names in `Domain` rules are considered as matches if the domain is a suffix of the host name (consisting of complete host name parts). Shorter domain suffixes are checked first, a single dot "`.`" as "domain name" can be used to specify global rules applied to every URL. E.g., for "www.example.com" the rules given above are looked up in the following order:
  1. check "www.example.com" whether host-based rules exist and whether one of them matches
  2. check "www.example.com" for domain-based rules
  3. check "example.com" for domain-based rules
  4. check "com" for domain-based rules
  5. check for global rules ("`Domain .`")
  The first matching rule will reject the URL and no further rules are checked. If no rule matches the URL is accepted. URLs without a host name (e.g., `file:/path/file.txt` are checked for global rules only. URLs which fail to be parsed as `URL` are always rejected. For rules either the URL path (`DenyPath`) or path and query (`DenyPathQuery`) are checked whether the given `Java Regular expression` is found (see `Matcher.find()`) in the URL path (and query). Rules are applied in the order of their definition. For better performance, regular expressions which are simpler/faster or match more URLs should be defined earlier. Comments in the rule file start with the `#` character and reach until the end of the line. The rules file is defined via the property `urlfilter.fast.file`, the default name is `fast-urlfilter.txt`.

- - ### Nested Class Summary

    Nested Classes
    Modifier and Type | Class | Description
    --- | --- | ---
    `static class` | `FastURLFilter.DenyAllRule` | Rule for `DenyPath .*` or `DenyPath .?`
    `static class` | `FastURLFilter.DenyPathQueryRule` |
    `static class` | `FastURLFilter.DenyPathRule` |
    `static class` | `FastURLFilter.Rule` |

  - ### Field Summary

    Fields
    Modifier and Type | Field | Description
    --- | --- | ---
    `protected static org.slf4j.Logger` | `LOG` |
    `static String` | `URLFILTER_FAST_FILE` |

    - ### Fields inherited from interface org.apache.nutch.net.URLFilter

      `X_POINT_ID`

  - ### Constructor Summary

    Constructors
    Constructor | Description
    --- | ---
    `FastURLFilter()` |

  - ### Method Summary

    All Methods Instance Methods Concrete Methods
    Modifier and Type | Method | Description
    --- | --- | ---
    `String` | `filter​(String url)` | Interface for a filter that transforms a URL: it can pass the original URL through or "delete" the URL by returning null
    `Configuration` | `getConf()` |
    `void` | `reloadRules()` |
    `void` | `setConf​(Configuration conf)` |

    - ### Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

- - ### Field Detail

    - #### LOG

          protected static final org.slf4j.Logger LOG

    - #### URLFILTER_FAST_FILE

          public static final String URLFILTER_FAST_FILE

      See Also:
        Constant Field Values

  - ### Constructor Detail

    - #### FastURLFilter

          public FastURLFilter()

  - ### Method Detail

    - #### setConf

          public void setConf​(Configuration conf)

      Specified by:
        `setConf` in interface `Configurable`

    - #### getConf

          public Configuration getConf()

      Specified by:
        `getConf` in interface `Configurable`

    - #### filter

          public String filter​(String url)

      Description copied from interface: `URLFilter`
      Interface for a filter that transforms a URL: it can pass the original URL through or "delete" the URL by returning null
      Specified by:
        `filter` in interface `URLFilter`
      Parameters:
        `url` - the URL string the filter is applied on
      Returns:
        the original URL string if the URL is accepted by the filter or null in case the URL is rejected

    - #### reloadRules

          public void reloadRules()
                           throws IOException

      Throws:
        `IOException`