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+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.nutch.crawl;
+
+import org.apache.avro.util.Utf8;
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
+import org.apache.nutch.crawl.DefaultFetchSchedule;
+import org.apache.nutch.metadata.Metadata;
+import org.apache.nutch.storage.WebPage;
+import org.apache.nutch.util.Bytes;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+
+/**
+ * First Version implemented by Canan Girgin
+ * 
+ */
+public class LanguageFetchSchedule extends DefaultFetchSchedule {
+
+  public static final String ACCEPTED_LANGUAGES = "accepted.languages";
+  private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory
+      .getLogger(LanguageFetchSchedule.class);
+  private String[] acceptedLanguages;
+
+  /**
+   * @param url
+   *          URL of the page
+   * @param page
+   * @param curTime
+   *          reference time (usually set to the time when the fetchlist
+   *          generation process was started).
+   * @return true, if the page should be considered for inclusion in the current
+   *         fetchlist, otherwise false.
+   */
+
+  @Override
+  public boolean shouldFetch(String url, WebPage page, long curTime) {
+    ByteBuffer pageLanguage = page.getFromMetadata(new Utf8(Metadata.LANGUAGE));
+    boolean pageShouldFetch = controlPageLanguage(pageLanguage);
+    if (pageShouldFetch) {
+      return super.shouldFetch(url, page, curTime);
+    } else {
+      LOG.info(url + " is rejected. Unaccepted Language: "
+          + Bytes.toString(pageLanguage.array()));
+      return pageShouldFetch;
+    }
+  }
+
+  private boolean controlPageLanguage(ByteBuffer pageLanguage) {
+    String lang;
+    if (pageLanguage != null) {
+      lang = Bytes.toString(pageLanguage.array());
+    } else {
+      return true;
+    }
+
+    for (String acceptLangConf : acceptedLanguages) {
+      if (acceptLangConf.equals(lang)) {
+        return true;
+      }
+    }
+
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void setConf(Configuration conf) {
+    super.setConf(conf);
+    if (conf == null)
+      return;
+    acceptedLanguages = conf.getStrings(ACCEPTED_LANGUAGES, "en");
+    LOG.info("Accepted"
+        + (acceptedLanguages.length > 1 ? " Languages are: " : "Language is: ")
+        + acceptedLanguages);
+  }
+}