DocumentPreProcessor (SearchHub Services - Parent 0.22.1 API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

AsciiFoldingDataProcessor, ConfigureableDataprocessor, ExtractCategoryLevelDataProcessor, FlagFieldDataProcessor, RemoveFieldContentDelimiterProcessor, RemoveValuesDataProcessor, ReplacePatternInValuesDataProcessor, SkipDocumentDataProcessor, SplitValueDataProcessor, WordSplitterDataProcessor
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public interface DocumentPreProcessor
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DocumentPreProcessor implementations can be used to alter product data before they get transformed into IndexableItems. Several implementations can be configured to run one after another, where each processor get's the manipulated record value of the former processor.

Author:

hjk, rb

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`void`	`initialize(FieldConfigAccess fieldConfig, Map<String,String> preProcessorConfig)`	DataPreProcessor MUST have a no-args constructor.
`boolean`	`process(Document sourceDocument, boolean visible)`	Called for each source document.

- Method Detail
  - initialize
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void initialize(FieldConfigAccess fieldConfig,
                Map<String,String> preProcessorConfig)
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    DataPreProcessor MUST have a no-args constructor. To configure it afterwards, this method will be used.
    
    Parameters:
    
    fieldConfig -
    
    preProcessorConfig - custom string-to-string map that can be configured per DocumentPreProcessor.
  - process
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boolean process(Document sourceDocument,
                boolean visible)
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    Called for each source document.
    
    Parameters:
    
    sourceDocument -
    
    visible - weather or not the record is currently marked for indexing.
    
    Returns:
    
    true if the record should be indexed, false otherwise.