edu.illinois.cs.cogcomp.nlp.tokenizer

Class UrlValidation

java.lang.Object

edu.illinois.cs.cogcomp.nlp.tokenizer.UrlValidation

public class UrlValidation
extends Object

This class is solely used to validate URIs. You provide a String, and a starting positions, it provides methods to determine if the URI is valid or not. Only syntax is checked by this class, and it is not correct, as "extra" characters are not supported as these could easily be punctuation in pure text. In retrospect, it would have been much better to write a URL validator as the syntax for URLs is much more restrictive, and those would really be the entities we want to produce.

Author:

redman

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
UrlValidation()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
int	isValid(char[] data, int offset) Check the string to determine if it is valid, if it is, return the position of the first character not part of the url.
static void	main(String[] args)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

UrlValidation

public UrlValidation()

Method Detail

isValid

public int isValid(char[] data,
                   int offset)

Check the string to determine if it is valid, if it is, return the position of the first character not part of the url.

Parameters:

data - the data we are looking at.

offset - the offset to look for a url.

Returns:

the end of the URL or -1 if not valid url.

main

public static void main(String[] args)

Parameters:

args -