Store Server

Scope

Store (compressed) files crawled in order to be parsed.

Interface

• Throught a declared server socket, it receives from crawlers the message :
  

  STR _size_info_byte_ _info_
  |___________________||_____|
  readUTF()               readByte()
  

  where _info_ is a compressed information containing _urlid_, MIME type, and file crawled.
• Throught a declared server socket, it receives from parsers one of the messages :
  

  GET FILE
  GET PATH
  RMV _path_
  

  In response to GET messages it sends respectively :

  FILE _size_info_byte_ _info_
  PATH _path_
  

  where _info_ is a compressed information containing _urlid_, MIME type, and file crawled.
• Reads a file giving some parameters.