info.ephyra.answerselection.filters
Class WebDocumentFetcher

java.lang.Object
  java.lang.Thread
      info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.WebDocumentFetcher

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Runnable

 class WebDocumentFetcher
extends java.lang.Thread

A thread that fetches a web document containing a given search engine snippet.

This class extends the class Thread.

Version:

2007-05-15

Author:

Nico Schlaefer

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class java.lang.Thread

java.lang.Thread.State, java.lang.Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler

Field Summary

private WebDocumentFetcherFilter	filter The WebDocumentFetcherFilter that started this thread.
private static int	RETRIES Number of retries if the HTTP connection fails.
private Result	snippet The search engine snippet.

Fields inherited from class java.lang.Thread

MAX_PRIORITY, MIN_PRIORITY, NORM_PRIORITY

Constructor Summary

WebDocumentFetcher()

Method Summary

void	run() Fetches the document text and returns it to the WebDocumentFetcherFilter.
void	start(WebDocumentFetcherFilter filter, Result snippet) Sets the calling filter and the snippet and starts the thread.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Thread

activeCount, checkAccess, countStackFrames, currentThread, destroy, dumpStack, enumerate, getAllStackTraces, getContextClassLoader, getDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler, getId, getName, getPriority, getStackTrace, getState, getThreadGroup, getUncaughtExceptionHandler, holdsLock, interrupt, interrupted, isAlive, isDaemon, isInterrupted, join, join, join, resume, setContextClassLoader, setDaemon, setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler, setName, setPriority, setUncaughtExceptionHandler, sleep, sleep, start, stop, stop, suspend, toString, yield

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

RETRIES

private static final int RETRIES

Number of retries if the HTTP connection fails.

See Also:

Constant Field Values

filter

private WebDocumentFetcherFilter filter

The WebDocumentFetcherFilter that started this thread.

snippet

private Result snippet

The search engine snippet.

Constructor Detail

WebDocumentFetcher

WebDocumentFetcher()

Method Detail

start

public void start(WebDocumentFetcherFilter filter,
                  Result snippet)

Sets the calling filter and the snippet and starts the thread.

Parameters:

filter - the calling WebDocumentFetcherFilter

snippet - search engine snippet

run

public void run()

Fetches the document text and returns it to the WebDocumentFetcherFilter.

Specified by:

run in interface java.lang.Runnable

Overrides:

run in class java.lang.Thread