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SMILA/Documentation/Filesystem Crawler
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What does FileSystemCrawler do
The FileSystemCrawler collects all files and folders recursively starting from a given directory. Next do the content of files it may gather any file meta information from the following list:
- size
- full path
- file name only
- file size
- last modified date
- file content
- file extension
Crawling configuration
The configuration file can be found at configuration/org.eclipse.smila.framework/file.
Crawling Configuration explanation
The root element of crawling configuration is CrawlJob and contains the following sub elements:
- DataSourceID – the identification of a data source
- SchemaID – specifies the schema for a crawler job
- DataConnectionID – describes which agent crawler should be used
- Crawler – implementation class of a Crawler
- Agent – implementation class of an Agent
- CompoundHandling – specify if packed data (like a zip containing files) should be unpack and files within should be crawled (YES or NO).
- Attributes – list all attributes which describe a file. (LastModifiedDate, Filename, Path, Content, Extension, Size)
- Attribute
- Type (required) – the data type (String, Integer or Date).
- Name (required) – attributes name.
- HashAttribute – specify if a hash should be created (true or false).
- KeyAttribute – creates a key for this object, for example for record id (true or false).
- Attachment – specify if the attribute return the data as attachment of record.
- Attribute
- Process – contains parameters for gathering data.
- BaseDir – the directory the crawling process begin (if is null, cannot be found/access or is not a directory a CrawlerCriticalException will be thrown).
- Filter – select file type and crawling mode.
- Recursive – (true or false).
- CaseSensitive – true or false
- BaseDir – the directory the crawling process begin (if is null, cannot be found/access or is not a directory a CrawlerCriticalException will be thrown).