[Babeldoc-devel] Scanners and filters

[Dejan K. <dej...@nb...>]

Bruce, I am working on implementation of  regular expression filtering in
scanners. Since I have no better idea there will be config options in each
scanners where filtering have sence. So in directory and ftp scanners
messages could be filtered by filename, and in case of mailbox scanner
subject and body (and maybe fromAddress) could be filtered. I will probably
drop code for include and exclude filters from dir scanners since they could
be used only for extensions not filename. Is it OK to delete it?
Also, I think one filter per field is enough since you can express anything
you want in regular expressions (no need for some kind of include and
exclude filters for every field...).
By the way, I will implement methods which deals with regular expression in
ScannerWorker class. Currently I use JDK 1.4 java.util.regex.* package but
we can later change this and use something that would work on older JDK
versions (Jakarta RegEx or ORO). It will be easy since there are only two
methods..

I have also added 'format' config option in SmtpWriter, which can be used to
specify if message is in html or plain text. Default is plain of course...

Dejan