resetSessionVariablesBeforeRescrape

boolean resetSessionVariablesBeforeRescrape ( )

Description

Returns true if the session variables should be reset before attempting to rescrape the file, if there was an error. This can be useful especially if extractors null session variables when they don't match, but the value is needed to rescrape the file.

Parameters

This method takes no parameters

Return Value

True if session variables should be reset if there was an error, false otherwise.

Change Log

Version Description
5.5.29a Available in all editions.

Examples

Create a custom RetryPolicy

 import com.screenscraper.util.retry.RetryPolicy;
 
 _log = log;
 _session = session;
 
 RetryPolicy policy = new RetryPolicy()
 {
   Map errorMap = new HashMap();

   boolean isError() throws Exception
   {
     errorMap.put("Was Error On Request", scrapeableFile.wasErrorOnRequest());
     return scrapeableFile.wasErrorOnRequest();
   }

   void runOnError() throws Exception
   {
     session.executeScript("Rotate Proxy");
   }

   Map getErrorChecksMap() throws Exception
   {
     return errorMap;
   }

   boolean resetSessionVariablesBeforeRescrape()
   {
     return true;
   }

   boolean shouldLogErrors()
   {
     return true;
   }

   int getMaxRetryAttempts()
   {
     return 5;
   }
   
   boolean resetReferrerBeforeRescrape()
   {
      return false;
   }
   
   void runOnAllAttemptsFailed()
   {
      _log.logError("Failed to fix errors with the retry policy, stopping scrape");
      _session.stopScraping();
   }
 };

 scrapeableFile.setRetryPolicy(policy);