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My solution to Go tour #70 - Web Crawler
package main
import (
"os"
"fmt"
)
type FetcherResult struct {
Urls []string
body string
err os.Error
}
type Fetcher interface {
// Fetch sends, on the given channel, the body of URL and
// a slice of URLs found on that page.
Fetch(url string, ch chan FetcherResult)
}
func Crawl(url string, depth int, fetcher Fetcher) {
fetched_urls := make(map[string]bool)
ch := make(chan FetcherResult)
go fetcher.Fetch(url, ch)
res := <-ch
fetched_urls[url] = true
urls := res.Urls
fmt.Printf("found: %s %q\n", url, res.body)
for i := depth; i > 0; i-- {
channels := make([]chan FetcherResult, len(urls))
for j := 0; j < len(urls); j++ {
ch := make(chan FetcherResult)
channels[j] = ch
go fetcher.Fetch(urls[j], ch)
fetched_urls[urls[j]] = true
}
new_urls := make([]string, 0)
for j := 0; j < len(urls); j++ {
res := <-channels[j]
if res.err != nil {
fmt.Println(res.err)
continue
}
fmt.Printf("found: %s %q\n", urls[j], res.body)
for _, u := range res.Urls {
if _, seen := fetched_urls[u]; seen {
continue
}
new_urls = append(new_urls, u)
}
}
urls = new_urls
}
}
func main() {
Crawl("http://golang.org/", 4, fetcher)
}
// 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, ch chan FetcherResult) {
if res, ok := (*f)[url]; ok {
ch <- FetcherResult{res.urls, res.body, nil}
}
ch <- FetcherResult{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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