public List<String> getNewLinks() {
List<String> ret = new ArrayList<String>();
Set<String> oldSet = lastCheckLinks;
lastCheckLinks = new HashSet<String>();
// check to see if it is the first time that this method has been called since construction of
// the object
boolean firstTime = false;
if (oldSet == null) {
firstTime = true;
}
for (String feed : feeds) {
List<String> links = checkFeed(feed);
// if it is the first time running check with database to see if a link has been added or not
if (firstTime) {
IDatabase db = Manager.getDatabase();
for (String link : links) {
if (!db.articleExists(link)) {
ret.add(link);
lastCheckLinks.add(link);
}
}
}
// if it isn't the first time running use the already cached set to determine repeats.
else {
for (String link : links) {
// just add it to the new lastCheckLinks set don't add it to the return array since it's
// already been returned before
if (oldSet.contains(link)) {
lastCheckLinks.add(link);
}
// add to both new lastCheckLinks set and the return List
else {
lastCheckLinks.add(link);
ret.add(link);
}
}
}
}
return ret;
}
@Override
public void run() {
ArticleAggregator agg = new ArticleAggregator();
IDatabase db = Manager.getDatabase();
SourceParser parser = new SourceParser();
int counter = 0;
for (String link : links) {
Article article = parser.parse(new Source(link));
// if the article object is null that means an error occurred while parsing the link look in
// error log file for reason
if (article != null) {
counter++;
System.out.println(counter + " " + link);
Story matchedStory = agg.matchArticle(article);
// if null was returned from the aggregator a new Story entry must be made because there
// is no good match in the database
if (matchedStory == null) {
// use the values of the article to set up the Story
Story story = new Story();
// TODO come up with better way of choosing category than taking the category from the
// article
story.setCategory(article.getCategory());
story.setTitle(article.getTitle());
story.setDate(article.getDate());
// id will be set when the store method is carried out
db.storeStory(story);
article.setStoryID(story.getID());
}
// if matchedStory isn't null it was matched to an already existing Story entry
else {
article.setStoryID(matchedStory.getID());
}
db.storeArticle(article);
}
// if (counter > ){
//// db.printArticleTable();
// System.exit(0);
// }
}
}
