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diff --git a/proposals/20201012_no_capture.md b/proposals/20201012_no_capture.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bb47ea2 --- /dev/null +++ b/proposals/20201012_no_capture.md @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ + +status: in-progress + +Storing no-capture missing URLs in `terminal_url` +================================================= + +Currently, when the bulk-mode ingest code terminates with a `no-capture` +status, the missing URL (which is not in GWB CDX) is not stored in +sandcrawler-db. This proposed change is to include it in the existing +`terminal_url` database column, with the `terminal_status_code` and +`terminal_dt` columns empty. + +The implementation is rather simple: + +- CDX lookup code path should save the *actual* final missing URL (`next_url` + after redirects) in the result object's `terminal_url` field +- ensure that this field gets passed through all the way to the database on the + `no-capture` code path + +This change does change the semantics of the `terminal_url` field somewhat, and +could break existing assumptions, so it is being documented in this proposal +document. + + +## Alternatives + +The current status quo is to store the missing URL as the last element in the +"hops" field of the JSON structure. We could keep this and have a convoluted +pipeline that would read from the Kafka feed and extract them, but this would +be messy. Eg, re-ingesting would not update the old kafka messages, so we could +need some accounting of consumer group offsets after which missing URLs are +truely missing. + +We could add a new `missing_url` database column and field to the JSON schema, +for this specific use case. This seems like unnecessary extra work. + |