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Solution to A Tour of Go final exercise - modify a web crawler to fetch URLs in parallel without fetching the same URL twice. Use Go's concurrency features. I used sync.WaitGroup to control the goroutines and a simple string->bool map to store already fetched URLs. Inline comments have further info
package main
import (
"fmt"
"sync"
)
type Fetcher interface {
// Fetch returns the body of URL and
// a slice of URLs found on that page.
Fetch(url string) (body string, urls []string, err error)
}
var fetched = make(map[string]bool) // keep track of fetched URLs
var wg sync.WaitGroup // global WaitGroup
// Crawl uses fetcher to recursively crawl
// pages starting with url, to a maximum of depth.
func Crawl(url string, depth int, fetcher Fetcher) {
defer wg.Done() // notify WaitGroup when we're finished
if depth <= 0 {
return
}
if fetched[url] == true { // only need to fetch each URL once
return
}
body, urls, err := fetcher.Fetch(url)
fetched[url] = true // mark it fetched
// NOTE: If above is placed after the err check then not-found URLs will be
// tried to be fetched again the next time they're encountered, having it
// before means that once they've 404'd once, they're considered done with
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
return
}
fmt.Printf("found: %s %q\n", url, body)
for _, u := range urls {
wg.Add(1) // notify WaitGroup of a new goroutine...
go Crawl(u, depth-1, fetcher) // ... and dispatch it
}
return
}
func main() {
wg.Add(1) // add initial goroutine to WaitGroup
go Crawl("http://golang.org/", 4, fetcher)
wg.Wait() // await completion of all goroutines
}
// fakeFetcher is Fetcher that returns canned results.
type fakeFetcher map[string]*fakeResult
type fakeResult struct {
body string
urls []string
}
func (f fakeFetcher) Fetch(url string) (string, []string, error) {
if res, ok := f[url]; ok {
return res.body, res.urls, nil
}
return "", nil, fmt.Errorf("not found: %s", url)
}
// fetcher is a populated fakeFetcher.
var fetcher = fakeFetcher{
"http://golang.org/": &fakeResult{
"The Go Programming Language",
[]string{
"http://golang.org/pkg/",
"http://golang.org/cmd/",
},
},
"http://golang.org/pkg/": &fakeResult{
"Packages",
[]string{
"http://golang.org/",
"http://golang.org/cmd/",
"http://golang.org/pkg/fmt/",
"http://golang.org/pkg/os/",
},
},
"http://golang.org/pkg/fmt/": &fakeResult{
"Package fmt",
[]string{
"http://golang.org/",
"http://golang.org/pkg/",
},
},
"http://golang.org/pkg/os/": &fakeResult{
"Package os",
[]string{
"http://golang.org/",
"http://golang.org/pkg/",
},
},
}
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