From 36b898ca7adcfe6417c21578b33a1e72daa2170d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: orbiter <orbiter@6c8d7289-2bf4-0310-a012-ef5d649a1542>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:36:43 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] - tested successfully z-presentation of yacy seed encoding -
 added alternative switch that takes shortest representation as yacy seed
 string encoding

git-svn-id: https://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/yacy/trunk@4491 6c8d7289-2bf4-0310-a012-ef5d649a1542
---
 source/de/anomic/tools/crypt.java   | 6 ++++++
 source/de/anomic/yacy/yacySeed.java | 6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/source/de/anomic/tools/crypt.java b/source/de/anomic/tools/crypt.java
index 4ae4be66b..2c201583c 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/tools/crypt.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/tools/crypt.java
@@ -129,4 +129,10 @@ public class crypt {
     }
     }
 
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+        String teststring="1234567890abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
+        System.out.println("Teststring   = " + teststring);
+        System.out.println("enc-b result = " + simpleDecode(simpleEncode(teststring, null, 'b'), null));
+        System.out.println("enc-z result = " + simpleDecode(simpleEncode(teststring, null, 'z'), null));
+    }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacySeed.java b/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacySeed.java
index 99c23051b..b34731bdc 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacySeed.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacySeed.java
@@ -818,7 +818,11 @@ public class yacySeed {
 
     public final String genSeedStr(String key) {
         // use a default encoding
-        return this.genSeedStr('z', key);
+        String z = this.genSeedStr('z', key);
+        String b = this.genSeedStr('b', key);
+        // the compressed string may be longer that the uncompressed if there is too much overhead for compression meta-info
+        // take simply that string that is shorter
+        if (b.length() < z.length()) return b; else return z;
     }
 
     public final synchronized String genSeedStr(char method, String key) {