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Chapter 12 Exception Handling

and Text IO

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Motivations
When a program runs into a runtime error, the
program terminates abnormally. How can you
handle the runtime error so that the program can
continue to run or terminate gracefully? This is the
subject we will introduce in this chapter.

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Objectives
To get an overview of exceptions and exception handling (§12.2).
 To explore the advantages of using exception handling (§12.2).
 To distinguish exception types: Error (fatal) vs. Exception (nonfatal) and checked vs. unchecked (§12.3).
 To declare exceptions in a method header (§12.4.1).
 To throw exceptions in a method (§12.4.2).
 To write a try-catch block to handle exceptions (§12.4.3).
 To explain how an exception is propagated (§12.4.3).
 To obtain information from an exception object (§12.4.4).
 To develop applications with exception handling (§12.4.5).
 To use the finally clause in a try-catch block (§12.5).
 To use exceptions only for unexpected errors (§12.6).
 To rethrow exceptions in a catch block (§12.7).
 To create chained exceptions (§12.8).
 To define custom exception classes (§12.9).
 To discover file/directory properties, to delete and rename files/directories, and to create directories using the File
class (§12.10).
 To write data to a file using the PrintWriter class (§12.11.1).
 To use try-with-resources to ensure that the resources are closed automatically (§12.11.2).
 To read data from a file using the Scanner class (§12.11.3).
 To understand how data is read using a Scanner (§12.11.4).
 To develop a program that replaces text in a file (§12.11.5).
 To read data from the Web (§12.12).
 To develop a Web crawler (§12.13).
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Exception-Handling Overview
Show runtime error
Quotient Run

Fix it using an if statement


QuotientWithIf Run

With a method

QuotientWithMethod Run

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Exception Advantages

QuotientWithException Run

Now you see the advantages of using exception handling.


It enables a method to throw an exception to its caller.
Without this capability, a method must handle the
exception or terminate the program.

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 İstisnaya sebebiyet verebilecek olan kod, try
bloğunun içerisinde tutularak güvenlik altına
alınmış olur.
 Eğer istisna oluşursa, istisna yakalama
mekanizması devreye girer ve oluşan bu istisnanın
tipine göre, uygulamanın akışı catch bloklarından
birinin içerisine yönlenerek devam eder.
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Exception Örnek
 Açmak istediğiniz fiziksel dosya yerinde
olmayabilir.
 Uygulamanıza kullanıcılar tarafından, beklenmedik
bir girdi kümesi gelebilir.
 Ağ bağlantısı kopmuş olabilir
 Yazmak istediğiniz dosya, başkası tarafından
açılmış olduğundan yazma hakkınız olmayabilir.

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Exception Types
ClassNotFoundException

ArithmeticException
IOException

Exception NullPointerException
RuntimeException
IndexOutOfBoundsException
Many more classes
Object Throwable IllegalArgumentException

Many more classes


LinkageError

Error VirtualMachineError

Many more classes

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System Errors
ClassNotFoundException

ArithmeticException
IOException

Exception NullPointerException
RuntimeException
IndexOutOfBoundsException
Many more classes
Object Throwable IllegalArgumentException

Many more classes


System errors are thrown by JVM
and represented in the Error class. LinkageError
The Error class describes internal
system errors. Such errors rarely Error VirtualMachineError
occur. If one does, there is little
you can do beyond notifying the
Many more classes
user and trying to terminate the
program gracefully.

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Exceptions
Exception describes errors
caused by your program ClassNotFoundException
and external ArithmeticException
circumstances. These IOException
errors can be caught and Exception NullPointerException
handled by your program.
RuntimeException
IndexOutOfBoundsException
Many more classes
Object Throwable IllegalArgumentException

Many more classes


LinkageError

Error VirtualMachineError

Many more classes

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Runtime Exceptions
ClassNotFoundException

ArithmeticException
IOException

Exception NullPointerException
RuntimeException
IndexOutOfBoundsException
Many more classes
Object Throwable IllegalArgumentException

Many more classes


LinkageError
RuntimeException is caused by
programming errors, such as bad
Error VirtualMachineError casting, accessing an out-of-bounds
array, and numeric errors.
Many more classes

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Checked Exceptions vs.
Unchecked Exceptions

RuntimeException, Error and their subclasses are


known as unchecked exceptions. All other
exceptions are known as checked exceptions,
meaning that the compiler forces the programmer
to check and deal with the exceptions.

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Unchecked Exceptions

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Unchecked Exceptions
ClassNotFoundException

ArithmeticException
IOException

Exception NullPointerException
RuntimeException
IndexOutOfBoundsException
Many more classes
Object Throwable IllegalArgumentException

Many more classes


LinkageError

Error VirtualMachineError Unchecked


exception.

Many more classes

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Declaring, Throwing, and Catching
Exceptions
method1() { declare exception
method2() throws Exception {
try {
invoke method2; if (an error occurs) {
}
catch exception catch (Exception ex) { throw new Exception(); throw exception
Process exception; }
} }
}

• Bir metod, hangi tür exception fırlatabileceğini önceden belirtebilir


(declaration),
• Bu method’ u çağıran diğer matodlar da, fırlatılabilecek olan bu
istisnayı, ya yakalarlar ya da bir üst bölüme (metoda) iletirler.
• Bir üst bölümden kasıt edilen, bir metodu çağıran diğer bir metod’ tur.

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Declaring Exceptions
Every method must state the types of checked
exceptions it might throw. This is known as
declaring exceptions.

public void myMethod()


throws IOException

public void myMethod()


throws IOException, OtherException

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Throwing Exceptions
When the program detects an error, the program
can create an instance of an appropriate exception
type and throw it. This is known as throwing an
exception. Here is an example,

throw new TheException();

TheException ex = new TheException();


throw ex;

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Throwing Exceptions Example
/** Set a new radius */
public void setRadius(double newRadius)
throws IllegalArgumentException {
if (newRadius >= 0)
radius = newRadius;
else
throw new IllegalArgumentException(
"Radius cannot be negative");
}

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Catching Exceptions
try {
statements; // Statements that may throw exceptions
}
catch (Exception1 exVar1) {
handler for exception1;
}
catch (Exception2 exVar2) {
handler for exception2;
}
...
catch (ExceptionN exVar3) {
handler for exceptionN;
}

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Catching Exceptions
main method { method1 { method2 { An exception
... ... ... is thrown in
try { try { try { method3
... ... ...
invoke method1; invoke method2; invoke method3;
statement1; statement3; statement5;
} } }
catch (Exception1 ex1) { catch (Exception2 ex2) { catch (Exception3 ex3) {
Process ex1; Process ex2; Process ex3;
} } }
statement2; statement4; statement6;
} } }

Call Stack
method3

method2 method2

method1 method1 method1

main method main method main method main method

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Catch or Declare Checked Exceptions
Suppose p2 is defined as follows:
void p2() throws IOException {
if (a file does not exist) {
throw new IOException("File does not exist");
}

...
}

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Catch or Declare Checked Exceptions
Java forces you to deal with checked exceptions. If a method declares a
checked exception (i.e., an exception other than Error or
RuntimeException), you must invoke it in a try-catch block or declare to
throw the exception in the calling method. For example, suppose that
method p1 invokes method p2 and p2 may throw a checked exception (e.g.,
IOException), you have to write the code as shown in (a) or (b).

void p1() { void p1() throws IOException {


try {
p2(); p2();
}
catch (IOException ex) { }
...
}
}

(a) (b)

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Example: Declaring, Throwing, and
Catching Exceptions
 Objective: This example demonstrates
declaring, throwing, and catching exceptions
by modifying the setRadius method in the
Circle class defined in Chapter 8. The new
setRadius method throws an exception if
radius is negative.
TestCircleWithException CircleWithException

Run
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setRadius metodu bir
exception fırlatır, bu metodu
çağıran başka metod bu
exception’ u yakalamak veya
bir üst metod’ a göndermek
zorundadır.

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Rethrowing Exceptions
try {
statements;
}
catch(TheException ex) {
perform operations before exits;
throw ex;
}

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The finally Clause
try {
statements;
}
catch(TheException ex) {
handling ex;
}
finally {
finalStatements;
}

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animation

Trace a Program Execution


Suppose no
exceptions in the
statements
try {
statements;
}
catch(TheException ex) {
handling ex;
}
finally {
finalStatements;
}

Next statement;

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animation

Trace a Program Execution


The final block is
try { always executed
statements;
}
catch(TheException ex) {
handling ex;
}
finally {
finalStatements;
}

Next statement;

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animation

Trace a Program Execution


Next statement in
try { the method is
executed
statements;
}
catch(TheException ex) {
handling ex;
}
finally {
finalStatements;
}

Next statement;

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animation

Trace a Program Execution


try { Suppose an exception
statement1; of type Exception1 is
statement2; thrown in statement2
statement3;
}
catch(Exception1 ex) {
handling ex;
}
finally {
finalStatements;
}

Next statement;

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animation

Trace a Program Execution


try { The exception is
statement1; handled.
statement2;
statement3;
}
catch(Exception1 ex) {
handling ex;
}
finally {
finalStatements;
}

Next statement;

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animation

Trace a Program Execution


try { The final block is
statement1; always executed.
statement2;
statement3;
}
catch(Exception1 ex) {
handling ex;
}
finally {
finalStatements;
}

Next statement;

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animation

Trace a Program Execution


try { The next statement in
statement1; the method is now
statement2; executed.
statement3;
}
catch(Exception1 ex) {
handling ex;
}
finally {
finalStatements;
}

Next statement;

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animation

Trace a Program Execution


try {
statement1; statement2 throws an
statement2; exception of type
statement3; Exception2.
}
catch(Exception1 ex) {
handling ex;
}
catch(Exception2 ex) {
handling ex;
throw ex;
}
finally {
finalStatements;
}

Next statement;

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animation

Trace a Program Execution


try {
statement1; Handling exception
statement2;
statement3;
}
catch(Exception1 ex) {
handling ex;
}
catch(Exception2 ex) {
handling ex;
throw ex;
}
finally {
finalStatements;
}

Next statement;

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animation

Trace a Program Execution


try {
statement1; Execute the final block
statement2;
statement3;
}
catch(Exception1 ex) {
handling ex;
}
catch(Exception2 ex) {
handling ex;
throw ex;
}
finally {
finalStatements;
}

Next statement;

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animation

Trace a Program Execution


try {
statement1; Rethrow the exception
statement2; and control is
statement3; transferred to the caller
}
catch(Exception1 ex) {
handling ex;
}
catch(Exception2 ex) {
handling ex;
throw ex;
}
finally {
finalStatements;
}

Next statement;

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Cautions When Using Exceptions
 Exception handling separates error-handling
code from normal programming tasks, thus
making programs easier to read and to modify.
Be aware, however, that exception handling
usually requires more time and resources
because it requires instantiating a new exception
object, rolling back the call stack, and
propagating the errors to the calling methods.

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When to Throw Exceptions
 An exception occurs in a method. If you want
the exception to be processed by its caller, you
should create an exception object and throw it.
If you can handle the exception in the method
where it occurs, there is no need to throw it.

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When to Use Exceptions
When should you use the try-catch block in the code?
You should use it to deal with unexpected error
conditions. Do not use it to deal with simple, expected
situations. For example, the following code
try {
System.out.println(refVar.toString());
}
catch (NullPointerException ex) {
System.out.println("refVar is null");
}
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When to Use Exceptions
is better to be replaced by
if (refVar != null)
System.out.println(refVar.toString());
else
System.out.println("refVar is null");

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Defining Custom Exception Classes
 Use the exception classes in the API whenever possible.
 Define custom exception classes if the predefined
classes are not sufficient.
 Define custom exception classes by extending
Exception or a subclass of Exception.

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Custom Exception Class Example
In Listing 13.8, the setRadius method throws an exception if the
radius is negative. Suppose you wish to pass the radius to the
handler, you have to create a custom exception class.

InvalidRadiusException

CircleWithRadiusException

TestCircleWithRadiusException Run

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 exceptionornek.InvalidRadiusException:
Invalid radius -5.0
 Number of objects created: 1
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Exception Example

 Tehlikeli bölge

 Eğer dosya yok ise ve


hata oluşmuşsa,
 Program çalışmasını
burada sonlandırır mı ?

 Programda Oluşan hata bir dosya okumadan kaynaklanmaktadır ve aynı metod içerisinde
yakalanmaktadır.
 Bu sebeple bu metodu yani cokCalis() isimli metodu çağıran başka metodların bir istisna
yönetimi uygulaması gerekmemektedir
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Exception Example

 Bu örnekte ise cokCalis() metodu içerisinde bir exception gerçekleşirse bu durumda bir
istisna (bir IOException tipinde hata nesnesi fırlatacağını bildirmekte) fırlatacağını kendini
çağıran diğer metod’ a bildirmekte,
 Bu sebeple bu metodu yani cokCalis() isimli metodu çağıran başka metodların bir istisna
yönetimini gerçekleştirmesi gerekmemektedir, yani kendini çağıran metod’ a ben bir
exception fırlatacağım bunu handle etmek sana kalıyor, gerekeni yap demek istemektedir.
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Exception Example

 Bu örnekte ise cokCalis() metodu içerisinde bir exception meydana geldiğinde bu istisnaya
uygun bir hata nesnesini fırlatacağını bildirmiştir,
 Bu metodu çağıran metodun bir hata yakalam mekanizması yoktur, (calis metodu) ve calis
metodu da kendini çağıran metoda bir exception nesnesi fırlatmaktadır,
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The File Class
The File class is intended to provide an abstraction that
deals with most of the machine-dependent complexities
of files and path names in a machine-independent
fashion. The filename is a string. The File class is a
wrapper class for the file name and its directory path.

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Obtaining file properties and manipulating file

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Problem: Explore File Properties
Objective: Write a program that demonstrates how to create
files in a platform-independent way and use the methods in
the File class to obtain their properties. The following
figures show a sample run of the program on Windows and
on Unix.

TestFileClass Run
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Problem: Explore File Properties
public static void main(String[] args) {
File file = new File("test.txt");
System.out.println("Does it exist? " + file.exists());
System.out.println("The file has " + file.length() + " bytes");
System.out.println("Can it be read? " + file.canRead());
System.out.println("Can it be written? " + file.canWrite());
System.out.println("Is it a directory? " + file.isDirectory());
System.out.println("Is it a file? " + file.isFile());
System.out.println("Is it absolute? " + file.isAbsolute());
System.out.println("Is it hidden? " + file.isHidden());
System.out.println("Absolute path is "
+ file.getAbsolutePath());
System.out.println("Last modified on "
+ new java.util.Date(file.lastModified()));

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Text I/O
A File object encapsulates the properties of a file or a path,
but does not contain the methods for reading/writing data
from/to a file. In order to perform I/O, you need to create
objects using appropriate Java I/O classes. The objects
contain the methods for reading/writing data from/to a file.
This section introduces how to read/write strings and
numeric values from/to a text file using the Scanner and
PrintWriter classes.

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Writing Data Using PrintWriter
java.io.PrintWriter
+PrintWriter(filename: String) Creates a PrintWriter for the specified file.
+print(s: String): void Writes a string.
+print(c: char): void Writes a character.
+print(cArray: char[]): void Writes an array of character.
+print(i: int): void Writes an int value.
+print(l: long): void Writes a long value.
+print(f: float): void Writes a float value.
+print(d: double): void Writes a double value.
+print(b: boolean): void Writes a boolean value.
Also contains the overloaded A println method acts like a print method; additionally it
println methods. prints a line separator. The line separator string is defined
Also contains the overloaded by the system. It is \r\n on Windows and \n on Unix.
printf methods. The printf method was introduced in §3.6, “Formatting
Console Output and Strings.”
.
WriteData Run
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Problem: Explore File Properties
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
java.io.File file = new java.io.File("scores.txt");
if (file.exists()) {
System.out.println("File already exists");
System.exit(0);
}

// Create a file
java.io.PrintWriter output = new java.io.PrintWriter(file);

// Write formatted output to the file


output.print("John T Smith ");
output.println(90);
output.print("Eric K Jones ");
output.println(85);

// Close the file


output.close();
}

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Try-with-resources
Programmers often forget to close the file. JDK 7 provides
the followings new try-with-resources syntax that
automatically closes the files.
try (declare and create resources) {
Use the resource to process the file;
}

WriteDataWithAutoClose Run

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Problem: Explore File Properties
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
java.io.File file = new java.io.File("scores.txt");
if (file.exists()) {
System.out.println("File already exists");
System.exit(0);
}

try (
// Create a file
java.io.PrintWriter output = new java.io.PrintWriter(file);
) {
// Write formatted output to the file
output.print("John T Smith ");
output.println(90);
output.print("Eric K Jones ");
output.println(85);
}
}

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Reading Data Using Scanner
java.util.Scanner
+Scanner(source: File) Creates a Scanner object to read data from the specified file.
+Scanner(source: String) Creates a Scanner object to read data from the specified string.
+close() Closes this scanner.
+hasNext(): boolean Returns true if this scanner has another token in its input.
+next(): String Returns next token as a string.
+nextByte(): byte Returns next token as a byte.
+nextShort(): short Returns next token as a short.
+nextInt(): int Returns next token as an int.
+nextLong(): long Returns next token as a long.
+nextFloat(): float Returns next token as a float.
+nextDouble(): double Returns next token as a double.
+useDelimiter(pattern: String): Sets this scanner’s delimiting pattern.
Scanner

ReadData Run
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Problem: Explore File Properties
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
// Create a File instance
java.io.File file = new java.io.File("scores.txt");

// Create a Scanner for the file


Scanner input = new Scanner(file);

// Read data from a file


while (input.hasNext()) {
String firstName = input.next();
String mi = input.next();
String lastName = input.next();
int score = input.nextInt();
System.out.println(
firstName + " " + mi + " " + lastName + " " + score);
}

// Close the file


input.close();
}

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Problem: Replacing Text
Write a class named ReplaceText that replaces a string in a text
file with a new string. The filename and strings are passed as
command-line arguments as follows:
java ReplaceText sourceFile targetFile oldString newString
For example, invoking
java ReplaceText FormatString.java t.txt StringBuilder StringBuffer
replaces all the occurrences of StringBuilder by StringBuffer in
FormatString.java and saves the new file in t.txt.

ReplaceText Run

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Reading Data from the Web
Just like you can read data from a file on your
computer, you can read data from a file on the
Web.

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Reading Data from the Web
URL url = new URL("www.google.com/index.html");

After a URL object is created, you can use the


openStream() method defined in the URL class to open an
input stream and use this stream to create a Scanner object
as follows:

Scanner input = new Scanner(url.openStream());

ReadFileFromURL Run

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Reading Data from the Web
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.print("Enter a URL: ");
String URLString = new Scanner(System.in).next();
try {
java.net.URL url = new java.net.URL(URLString);
int count = 0;
Scanner input = new Scanner(url.openStream());
while (input.hasNext()) {
String line = input.nextLine();
count += line.length();
System.out.println(count + " .line =" + line);
}
System.out.println("The file size is " + count + " characters");
} catch (java.net.MalformedURLException ex) {
System.out.println("Invalid URL");
} catch (java.io.IOException ex) {
System.out.println("IO Errors");
}
}

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Case Study: Web Crawler
This case study develops a program that travels the
Web by following hyperlinks.

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Case Study: Web Crawler
The program follows the URLs to traverse the Web. To
avoid that each URL is traversed only once, the program
maintains two lists of URLs. One list stores the URLs
pending for traversing and the other stores the URLs that
have already been traversed. The algorithm for this
program can be described as follows:

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Case Study: Web Crawler
Add the starting URL to a list named listOfPendingURLs;
while listOfPendingURLs is not empty {
Remove a URL from listOfPendingURLs;
if this URL is not in listOfTraversedURLs {
Add it to listOfTraversedURLs;
Display this URL;
Exit the while loop when the size of S is equal to 100.
Read the page from this URL and for each URL contained in the page {
Add it to listOfPendingURLs if it is not is listOfTraversedURLs;
}
}
}

WebCrawler Run

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