Something like that. It will be called after the object has been created and
before Nutch' code calls the filter method.
-----Original message-----
> From:Sourajit Basak <sourajit.ba...@gmail.com>
> Sent: Fri 16-Nov-2012 12:48
> To: user@nutch.apache.org
> Subject: Re: custom plugin's constructor unable to access hadoop conf
>
> Is it guaranteed that setConf(... will be called before any method gets
> invoked ? In this case filter(....
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Markus Jelsma
> <markus.jel...@openindex.io>wrote:
>
> > That's because the object is not set in the constructor. You can access
> > Configuration after setConf() is called. So defer your work in the
> > constructor to this method.
> >
> > public void setConf(Configuration conf) {
> > this.conf = conf;
> > }
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original message-----
> > > From:Sourajit Basak <sourajit.ba...@gmail.com>
> > > Sent: Fri 16-Nov-2012 11:28
> > > To: user@nutch.apache.org
> > > Subject: custom plugin's constructor unable to access hadoop conf
> > >
> > > In my custom HtmlParseFilter plugin, I am getting a NPE on trying to
> > access
> > > the hadoop Configuration object in the plugin constructor. Is this a
> > known
> > > behavior ?
> > >
> >
>
