REST uses the old method invocation which sets overwrite and update to false, which is wrong.
https://github.com/apache/nutch/blob/master/src/java/org/apache/nutch/crawl/Injector.java#L514 Please open a ticket. M. -----Original message----- > From:Sujan Suppala <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday 14th October 2016 11:44 > To: [email protected] > Subject: nutch 1.12 INJECT REST call not honoring db.injector.overwrite > > Hi, > I am using the Nutch 1.12. > I don't see an option to overwrite an url in the crawl db via > the INJECT REST call, also I have observed that this rest call is not > honoring the config settings for "db.injector.overwrite" , > "db.injector.update" properties when these are set to true. > > > POST /job/create > > { > > "type":"INJECT", > > "confId":"default", > > "crawlId":"TestCrawl", > > "args": {"url_dir":"c:\\cygwin64\\tmp\\1475752235404-0"} > > } > > > But I could see an option via the inject command: > $ bin/nutch inject TestCrawl/crawldb urls > -overwrite > > > I want to overwrite an url so that its status changes to > UNFETCHED. I have only option to use REST service. Someone help on this? > > > Thanks > Sujan >
