net.sourceforge.pebble.domain
Class RefererFilterManager

java.lang.Object
  net.sourceforge.pebble.domain.RefererFilterManager

public class RefererFilterManager
extends java.lang.Object

A class to manage regular expressions used to filter out obscene and spam referers that appear in the logs.

Author:

Simon Brown

Method Summary

void	addFilter(RefererFilter newFilter) Adds a new filter to the existing list.
java.util.List	filter(java.util.List referers) Filters a collection of referers using the filters managed by this instance.
java.util.Collection	getFilters() Gets a collection containing filters.
boolean	removeFilter(java.lang.String expression) Removes a filter from the list.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

addFilter

public void addFilter(RefererFilter newFilter)

Adds a new filter to the existing list.

Parameters:

newFilter - a RefererFilter instance

removeFilter

public boolean removeFilter(java.lang.String expression)

Removes a filter from the list.

Parameters:

expression - the expression to be removed

getFilters

public java.util.Collection getFilters()

Gets a collection containing filters.

Returns:

a Collection of RefererFilter instances

filter

public java.util.List filter(java.util.List referers)

Filters a collection of referers using the filters managed by this instance. Any urls matching a filter are removed.

Parameters:

referers - the List of referers (CountedUrls) to be filtered

Returns:

a filtered List containing CountedUrls