geneseo.cs.sc
Class WebPage

java.lang.Object
  geneseo.cs.sc.WebPage

public class WebPage

extends java.lang.Object

Represents a Web page, i.e., a long string of text that (presumably) lives on a Web server somewhere and is identified by a URL. This class provides a much simpler, but less functional, interface to Web pages than the standard Java library classes do.

Constructor Summary

WebPage(java.lang.String url)
Initialize a Web page.

Method Summary

java.lang.String

getText() Return the text stored in a Web page, as a long string.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

WebPage

public WebPage(java.lang.String url)

Initialize a Web page. For example

   WebPage page = new WebPage( "http://www.somewhere.com" );
 

Parameters:

url - The URL for the page this object should represent.

Method Detail

getText

public java.lang.String getText()

Return the text stored in a Web page, as a long string. For example

   String pageText = somePage.getText();
 

Returns:

The contents of the page, or null if the page couldn't be fetched from its server for any reason.