Content sources, Building your applications – Google Search Appliance Administrative API Developers Guide: Java User Manual

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Google Search Appliance: Administrative API Developer’s Guide: Java

Building Your Applications

You can build your own applications using the client library.

Copy the following client library JAR files from the gdata/java/lib folder to your development folder
and add the files to your classpath environmental system variable:

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gdata-core-1.0.jar

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gdata-gsa-1.0.jar

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gdata-client-1.0.jar

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gdata-client-meta-1.0.jar

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gdata-gsa-meta-1.0.jar

You can then use the JAR files in your application.

Authenticating Your Google Search Appliance Account

Before making API calls with the Java client library, you must construct a new GsaClient object. The
user account used to authenticate must be an account of "Administrator" type, not "Manager" type.

In the constructor that follows, replace gsaAddr with the host name of a search appliance, gsaPort with
port 8000, myUserId and myPassword with your Admin Console authentication information:

import com.google.enterprise.apis.client.GsaClient;
GsaClient myClient = new GsaClient("gsaAddr", gsaPort, "myUserId", "myPassword");

For example:

import com.google.enterprise.apis.client.GsaClient;
GsaClient myClient = new GsaClient("gsa42.corp.example.com", 8000, "admin",

"greenparrot");

Content Sources

The sections that follow describe how to configure the Content Sources features of the Admin Console:

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“Crawl URLs” on page 8

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“Data Source Feeds” on page 9

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“Crawl Schedule” on page 12