On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:07 AM, Susam Pal <susam....@gmail.com> wrote:
> The inline documentation of 'conf/crawl-tool.xml' mentions:
>
> <!-- Do not modify this file directly. Instead, copy entries that you -->
> <!-- wish to modify from this file into nutch-site.xml and change them -->
> <!-- there. If nutch-site.xml does not already exist, create it. -->
>
> However, I don't see any way of overriding the properties defined in
> 'conf/crawl-tool.xml' as 'conf/nutch-site.xml' is added to the
> configuration before 'conf/crawl-tool.xml' in the code. Here are the
> relevant code snippets:
>
> src/org/apache/nutch/crawl/Crawl.java (Lines 57 to 59) :
>
> Configuration conf = NutchConfiguration.create();
> conf.addResource("crawl-tool.xml");
> JobConf job = new NutchJob(conf);
>
> src/org/apache/nutch/tool/NutchConfiguration.java (Lines 39 to 40) :
>
> conf.addResource("nutch-default.xml");
> conf.addResource("nutch-site.xml");
>
> So, shouldn't that XML comment be removed from 'conf/crawl-tool.xml' ?
>
> Regards,
> Susam Pal
>
I have uploaded a patch for this in :
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-735
Instead of changing the XML comments, I have changed the code such
that it behaves as per what the XML comments mention.
Regards,
Susam Pal
