maito.datacollecting.oaipmh
Class OAIPMHDataSource

java.lang.Object
  maito.datacollecting.oaipmh.OAIPMHDataSource

All Implemented Interfaces:

DataSource

public class OAIPMHDataSource
extends java.lang.Object
implements DataSource

A class that represents a data source using OAI-PMH to read data from a network repository.

Author:

Antti Laitinen

Constructor Summary

OAIPMHDataSource(java.util.Properties parameters, RecordParser recordParser)

Method Summary

void	update() Reads data from the OAI-PMH repository.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

OAIPMHDataSource

public OAIPMHDataSource(java.util.Properties parameters,
                        RecordParser recordParser)
                 throws DataSourceException

Parameters:

parameters - Must contain the following parameters:

• location (base URL to the remote OAI-PMH service)

The following parameters are optional:

• updated (The date when this source was last updated. If this parameter is not present, then the )

Throws:

DataSourceException

Method Detail

update

public void update()
            throws DataSourceException

Reads data from the OAI-PMH repository. If the data is successfully received it is then sent to the RecordParser.

Specified by:

update in interface DataSource

Throws:

DataSourceException