HTMLParser.java

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package org.apache.lucene.benchmark.byTask.feeds;


import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.util.Date;

/**
 * HTML Parsing Interface for test purposes
 */
public interface HTMLParser {

  /**
   * Parse the input Reader and return DocData. 
   * The provided name,title,date are used for the result, unless when they're null, 
   * in which case an attempt is made to set them from the parsed data.
   * @param docData result reused
   * @param name name of the result doc data.
   * @param date date of the result doc data. If null, attempt to set by parsed data.
   * @param reader reader of html text to parse.
   * @param trecSrc the {@link TrecContentSource} used to parse dates.   
   * @return Parsed doc data.
   * @throws IOException If there is a low-level I/O error.
   */
  public DocData parse(DocData docData, String name, Date date, Reader reader, TrecContentSource trecSrc) throws IOException;

}