NAME

Labrador::Common::Partition

DESCRIPTION

Base class for all partitioning schemes. URLs are only in a crawler's partition if the URLs of the same hash value have been assigned to it.

new($data): Constructor. Automagically calls init().
init(): Loads data structures.
new_urls($partition, @urls): Registers the hash values of the given URLs to the provided partition.
asssigned($url): Returns true if the hash of $url has been assigned to a partition
delete_partition($partition): This is expensive, TRUST ME
hash($url): Returns the value to be hashed on.
size($partition): Returns the number of hash values assigned to the partition named $partition. Returns 0 if the $partition is unknown.
sizes(): Returns a hash of partition sizes.

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