net.firstpartners.rp.plugins
Interface IDataExtractor

All Superinterfaces:

IPlugin

All Known Implementing Classes:

FileTreeDataExtractor, GenericDataExtractor, PdfDataExtractor, SampleExtractor, WebDataExtractor, XmlDataExtractor

public interface IDataExtractor
extends IPlugin

A source of information that we want to extract and add to the knowledgebase (web content , local content etc)

Author:

brownpa

Method Summary

int	canHandle(INewInformation newInfo) How well the plugin thinks it can handle a new piece of information
void	convert(INewInformation info) Convert the specified information into Tuples/Node and and store it in the specified model
java.lang.String[]	getListExtensions() List of the supported extensions
java.lang.String	getOriginalUri() The original place where we got this data
java.lang.String	getType() The type of the extractor

Methods inherited from interface net.firstpartners.rp.plugins.IPlugin

onLoad

Method Detail

getType

java.lang.String getType()

The type of the extractor

Returns:

Type of extractor

getListExtensions

java.lang.String[] getListExtensions()

List of the supported extensions

Returns:

Supported extension list

getOriginalUri

java.lang.String getOriginalUri()

The original place where we got this data

Returns:

pointer

canHandle

int canHandle(INewInformation newInfo)

How well the plugin thinks it can handle a new piece of information

Parameters:

newInfo -

Returns:

convert

void convert(INewInformation info)
             throws RpException

Convert the specified information into Tuples/Node and and store it in the specified model

Parameters:

info - The new information to be converted

Throws:

RpException - RpException will be thrown in case the data cann't be converted