// indexDocumentMetadata.java
// (C) 2008 by Michael Peter Christen; mc@yacy.net, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
// first published 19.08.2008 on http://yacy.net
//
// This is a part of YaCy, a peer-to-peer based web search engine
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package de.anomic.plasma.parser;

import java.util.Date;

import de.anomic.crawler.CrawlProfile;
import de.anomic.yacy.yacyURL;

public interface Document {

    /**
     * @return an anchor name; can be either the text inside the anchor tag or the
     *         page description after loading of the page
     */
    public String name();

    public yacyURL url();

    public String urlHash();

    public Date lastModified();

    public String language();

    public CrawlProfile.entry profile();

    public String initiator();

    public boolean proxy();

    public long size();

    public int depth();

    public yacyURL referrerURL();

    public void setCacheArray(final byte[] data);

    public byte[] cacheArray();

    public String getMimeType();
    public Date ifModifiedSince();
    public boolean requestProhibitsIndexing();
    public boolean requestWithCookie();

    /**
     * @return NULL if the answer is TRUE, in case of FALSE, the reason as
     *         String is returned
     */
    public String shallStoreCacheForProxy();
    
    /**
     * decide upon header information if a specific file should be taken from
     * the cache or not
     * 
     * @return whether the file should be taken from the cache
     */
    public boolean shallUseCacheForProxy();
}