Re: [Babeldoc-devel] Scanners and filters

[bruce <br...@mc...>]

Dejan,

On Thursday 27 March 2003 11:19 am, Dejan Krsmanovic wrote:
> 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?

Your call - you know the code.

> 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...).

Yes - more than one expression is fine for now.

> 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 dont know much about the jdk1.4 regex package.  I do know that the ORO 
package is highly regarded.

> 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...
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