com.flickrrecsys.engine
Class TagSimilarityEng

java.lang.Object
  com.flickrrecsys.engine.TagSimilarityEng

public class TagSimilarityEng
extends java.lang.Object

This class extracts contact from groups which have already been selected as most frequently used. Then the class extracts those member's tag cloud and records them to the database. Once all extractions are done then the user's tag cloud will be checked in terms of its similarity and if its similarity was above the threshold which was set in the customisation the result will be returned.

Author:

Hossein Ghodsi

Constructor Summary

TagSimilarityEng(java.lang.String nsid, java.lang.String servletPath, com.aetrion.flickr.Flickr f, java.lang.String filePath)
The constructor assigns parameters passed to it to global variable

Method Summary

java.util.Vector<MyUser>

getSimilarUsers() This method finds contacts based on tag clouds.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

TagSimilarityEng

public TagSimilarityEng(java.lang.String nsid,
                        java.lang.String servletPath,
                        com.aetrion.flickr.Flickr f,
                        java.lang.String filePath)

The constructor assigns parameters passed to it to global variable

Parameters:

nsid - user ID given to user by the Flickr website

servletPath - where the datbase details are located

f - Flickr object in order to connect to the Flickr API

filePath - where the authentication file located

Method Detail

getSimilarUsers

public java.util.Vector<MyUser> getSimilarUsers()

This method finds contacts based on tag clouds. If tag clouds similarity was above the value of threshold then the contact will be recommended. Finally the method connect to the Flickr API in order to get user's details

Returns:

Vector of MyUser