net.sf.jabref.external

Interface FullTextFinder

All Known Implementing Classes:

ScienceDirectPdfDownload, SpringerLinkPdfDownload

public interface FullTextFinder

This interface is used for classes that try to resolve a full-text PDF url from an article web page. Implementing classes should specialize on specific article sites.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.net.URL	findFullTextURL(java.net.URL url) Take the source HTML for an article page, and try to find the URL to the full text for this article.
boolean	supportsSite(java.net.URL url) Report whether this FullTextFinder works for the site providing the given URL.

Method Detail

supportsSite

boolean supportsSite(java.net.URL url)

Report whether this FullTextFinder works for the site providing the given URL.

Parameters:

url - The url to check.

Returns:

true if the site is supported, false otherwise. If the site might be supported, it is best to return true.

findFullTextURL

java.net.URL findFullTextURL(java.net.URL url)
                      throws java.io.IOException

Take the source HTML for an article page, and try to find the URL to the full text for this article.

Parameters:

url - The URL to the article's web page.

Returns:

The fulltext PDF URL, if found, or null if not found.

Throws:

java.io.IOException