SearchSpec.java
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/** Small class that encapsulates how to construct a
* search string for a particular search engine.
* Taken from Core Web Programming Java 2 Edition
* from Prentice Hall and Sun Microsystems Press,
* May be freely used or adapted.
*/
public class SearchSpec {
private String name, baseURL, numResultsSuffix;
private static SearchSpec[] commonSpecs =
{ new SearchSpec("google",
"http://www.google.com/search?q=",
"&num="),
new SearchSpec("infoseek",
"http://infoseek.go.com/Titles?qt=",
"&nh="),
new SearchSpec("lycos",
"http://lycospro.lycos.com/cgi-bin/" +
"pursuit?query=",
"&maxhits="),
new SearchSpec("hotbot",
"http://www.hotbot.com/?MT=",
"&DC=")
};
public SearchSpec(String name,
String baseURL,
String numResultsSuffix) {
this.name = name;
this.baseURL = baseURL;
this.numResultsSuffix = numResultsSuffix;
}
public String makeURL(String searchString,
String numResults) {
return(baseURL + searchString +
numResultsSuffix + numResults);
}
public String getName() {
return(name);
}
public static SearchSpec[] getCommonSpecs() {
return(commonSpecs);
}
}