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Norconex Crawlers (or spiders) are flexible web and filesystem crawlers for collecting, parsing, and manipulating data from the web or filesystem to various data repositories such as search engines.
https://opensource.norconex.com/crawlers
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Running multiple committers at the same time not possible? #283

Closed liar666 closed 8 years ago

liar666 commented 8 years ago

Hi,

I'm currently developing my own committer. In order to debug my own code, I wanted to keep the FileSystemCommitter , so that I can compare the output of both committer.

The configuration file looks like this: 

    <crawler>
...
      <committer class="fr.presans.crawling.norconex.FoafCommitter">
        <where>STD_OUT</where>
      </committer>

      <committer class="com.norconex.committer.core.impl.FileSystemCommitter">
        <directory>./crawlers-output/startupnation/crawledFiles</directory>
      </committer>
    </crawler>

Unfortunately, when both committers are active, the second one (FileSystemCommitter) does not seem to be called: I can't find any ./crawlers-output/startupnation/crawledFiles/ directory nor files in it... However, when the first committer is commented-out, everything works fine.

Did I miss something in the configuration file or is there a bug?

PS: I'm using norconex-collector-http-2.5.1 + norconex-importer-2.6.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

essiembre commented 8 years ago

The configuration does not allow you to specify more than one committer, but fear not, a committer exists that just allows that: MultiCommitter. You can use it like this:

  <committer class="com.norconex.committer.core.impl.MultiCommitter">
      <committer class="(committer class)">
          (Commmitter-specific configuration here)
      </committer>
      <committer class="(committer class)">
          (Commmitter-specific configuration here)
      </committer>
      ...
  </committer>
liar666 commented 8 years ago

Oh! Yes of course! On top of that, I read about this feature recently! Sorry for the waste of time!

essiembre commented 8 years ago

Just to point there was an issue that sometimes committers besides the first one listed in a multi committer would not receive the content. This has been fixed in the latest snapshot release.

liar666 commented 8 years ago

I just noticed bug that is somewhat different but seems related: when I comment out one of the two committers I put in my MultiCommitter, then nothing happens. My bug is that when there's only one committer in a MultiCommitter, then it does not receive the content either... I'll check and tell you if the latest snapshot corrects the bug.

liar666 commented 8 years ago

OK. I just verified, the 2 bugs were indeed related, it's now corrected :)