// search for the finishing website
// inputs: strings for start and end, ArticleCollection to store webpages in, ForbiddenLinks object
void searchForWebsite(string StartPageName, string FinishPageName, ArticleCollection Webpages, ForbiddenLinks Forbidden) {
// get data for first webpage
WikipediaWebRequest request = new WikipediaWebRequest("wiki/"+StartPageName, Webpages, Forbidden, null);
// successful request, start program
if (request.SuccessfulWebRequest()) {
WikipediaSearcher s = null;
// create article crawler
ArticleCrawler c = new ArticleCrawler(Webpages, Forbidden);
Thread crawler = new Thread(() => c.Start());
crawler.Start();
crawler.Priority = ThreadPriority.Normal;
// create searcher
Console.WriteLine("Creating Searcher....");
Thread searcher = new Thread(() => {s = new WikipediaSearcher(Webpages, StartPageName, FinishPageName, Forbidden, "BFS");});
searcher.Start();
searcher.Priority = ThreadPriority.AboveNormal;
// wait for searcher to complete
searcher.Join();
// try to stop crawler
try {
crawler.Abort();
}
catch (PlatformNotSupportedException) {
// TODO: investigate this further
Console.WriteLine("System does not support abort of threads. Please terminate manually");
}
}
}
