[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-139?page=all ]

Chris A. Mattmann updated NUTCH-139:
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    Priority: Minor  (was: Major)

> Standard metadata property names in the ParseData metadata
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
>          Key: NUTCH-139
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-139
>      Project: Nutch
>         Type: Improvement
>   Components: fetcher
>     Versions: 0.7.1, 0.7, 0.6, 0.7.2-dev, 0.8-dev
>  Environment: Power Mac OS X 10.4, Dual Processor G5 2.0 Ghz, 1.5 GB  RAM, 
> although bug is independent of environment
>     Reporter: Chris A. Mattmann
>     Assignee: Chris A. Mattmann
>     Priority: Minor
>      Fix For: 0.7.2-dev, 0.8-dev, 0.7.1, 0.7, 0.6

>
> Currently, people are free to name their string-based properties anything 
> that they want, such as having names of "Content-type", "content-TyPe", 
> "CONTENT_TYPE" all having the same meaning. Stefan G. I believe proposed a 
> solution in which all property names be converted to lower case, but in 
> essence this really only fixes half the problem right (the case of 
> identifying that "CONTENT_TYPE"
> and "conTeNT_TyPE" and all the permutations are really the same). What about
> if I named it "Content     Type", or "ContentType"?
>  I propose that a way to correct this would be to create a standard set of 
> named Strings in the ParseData class that the protocol framework and the 
> parsing framework could use to identify common properties such as 
> "Content-type", "Creator", "Language", etc.
>  The properties would be defined at the top of the ParseData class, something 
> like:
>  public class ParseData{
>    .....
>     public static final String CONTENT_TYPE = "content-type";
>     public static final String CREATOR = "creator";
>    ....
> }
> In this fashion, users could at least know what the name of the standard 
> properties that they can obtain from the ParseData are, for example by making 
> a call to ParseData.getMetadata().get(ParseData.CONTENT_TYPE) to get the 
> content type or a call to ParseData.getMetadata().set(ParseData.CONTENT_TYPE, 
> "text/xml"); Of course, this wouldn't preclude users from doing what they are 
> currently doing, it would just provide a standard method of obtaining some of 
> the more common, critical metadata without pouring over the code base to 
> figure out what they are named.
> I'll contribute a patch near the end of the this week, or beg. of next week 
> that addresses this issue.

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