/**
* SeekQuarry/Yioop --
* Open Source Pure PHP Search Engine, Crawler, and Indexer
*
* Copyright (C) 2009 - 2026 Chris Pollett chris@pollett.org
*
* LICENSE:
*
* This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
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* along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*
* END LICENSE
*
* @author Chris Pollett chris@pollett.org
* @license https://www.gnu.org/licenses/ GPL3
* @link https://www.seekquarry.com/
* @copyright 2009 - 2026s
* @filesource
*/
/**
* Implements the client interface for finding and labeling documents.
*
* Classifier behaves like a static class with some private variables and
* functions. The setup work is all done in the initialize method, and after
* that all work is done in response to timeouts or user actions, such as
* button clicks.
*
* @author Shawn Tice
*/
var Classifier = (function() {
/*
* Maximum size of the document candidate pool. This constant is used to
* decide when to display, e.g., 50+ instead of just 50.
* @var int
*/
var MAX_UNLABELLED_BUFFER_SIZE = 51;
/*
* The maximum number of previously-labeled document records to display.
* @var int
*/
var MAX_LABELLED = 20;
/*
* How long to wait before adding another '.' to the end of a loading
* message. The advantage of choosing 333 is that the time to display three
* periods is roughly one second.
* @var int
*/
var LOADING_REDRAW = 333;
// We return this at the bottom, so this is Classifier's public interface.
var self = {};
/*
* Gathers references to all relevant DOM elements, initializes state, and
* adds event handlers. Because AJAX requests to the administrative areas
* of Yioop must be authenticated, this method expects to be called with
* its first authentication token; each request will then yield a new token
* good for one more request.
*
* @param string classLabel label for the classifier being trained
* @param string authSession authentication token good for one request
* @param int authTime timestamp associated with the auth token
*/
self.initialize = function(classLabel, authSession, authTime)
{
self.classLabel = classLabel;
self.authTime = authTime;
self.authSession = authSession;
self.elt = {
'positive_count': elt('positive-count'),
'negative_count': elt('negative-count'),
'accuracy': elt('accuracy'),
'update_accuracy': elt('update-accuracy'),
'label_docs_form': elt('label-docs-form'),
'label_docs_source': elt('label-docs-source'),
'label_docs_type': elt('label-docs-type'),
'label_docs_keywords': elt('label-docs-keywords'),
'label_docs_status': elt('label-docs-status'),
'label_docs_queue': null,
};
self.docCounter = 1;
self.documents = {};
self.activeDocument = null;
self.labelledDocQueue = [];
self.lastSource = null;
self.lastSourceType = null;
self.lastKeywords = null;
self.lastStatus = '';
self.loadingTimer = null;
self.elt.label_docs_form.onsubmit = function() {
self.requestDocuments();
return false;
}
self.elt.update_accuracy.onclick = function() {
if (!hasClass('disabled', self.elt.update_accuracy)) {
self.requestAccuracyUpdate();
}
return false;
}
};
/*
* Event handler called when the user clicks on any of the "In class", "Not
* in class", and "Skip" links associated with a document. This method
* updates the display and sends a request to the server to inform it of
* the user's decision and get the next document to be labeled.
*
* @param int docid key for the associated document
* @param string action 'inclass', 'notinclass', or 'skip'
*/
self.handleAction = function(docid, action)
{
var doc = self.documents[docid];
var label;
switch (action) {
case 'inclass':
label = 1;
break;
case 'notinclass':
label = -1;
break;
case 'skip':
label = 0;
break;
}
// Only send a request if something has changed.
if (doc.label === undefined || doc.label != label) {
self.sendNewLabel(doc, label);
}
// Update the class for benefit of the CSS
doc.element.className = 'labelled ' + action;
doc.label = label;
/*
If the labelled (or skipped) document was the active document, then
push it down on the labeled queue, shifting off the oldest document
if the queue is full.
*/
if (doc == self.activeDocument) {
self.activeDocument = null;
if (self.labelledDocQueue.length == MAX_LABELLED) {
var droppedDoc = self.labelledDocQueue.shift();
droppedDoc.element.parentNode.removeChild(droppedDoc.element);
}
self.labelledDocQueue.push(doc);
}
return false;
}
/* PRIVATE INTERFACE */
/*
* Sends a request to load up a new candidate pool based on the selected
* index, index action, and optional query. The response behavior differs
* according to whether the index action specifies marking all candidates
* as positive or negative examples, or manual labeling. In the latter case
* the number of candidate documents (up to MAX_UNLABELLED_BUFFER_SIZE) is
* displayed, while in the former case the number of documents added to the
* pool is displayed.
*/
self.requestDocuments = function()
{
self.lastSource = self.elt.label_docs_source.value;
self.lastSourceType = self.elt.label_docs_type.value;
self.lastKeywords = self.elt.label_docs_keywords.value;
var loading = loadingText(self.elt.label_docs_status,
tl['crawl_component_loading']);
sendRequest({
'url': '?c=classifier&a=classify&arg=getdocs',
'postdata': {
'session': self.authSession,
'time': self.authTime,
'label': self.classLabel,
'index': self.lastSource,
'type': self.lastSourceType,
'keywords': self.lastKeywords
},
'onSuccess': function(response) {
loading.clear();
self.authSession = response.authSession;
self.authTime = response.authTime;
self.clearActiveDocument();
if (response.new_doc) {
self.setActiveDocument(response.new_doc);
}
if (response.add_count) {
// Only present when mass-labeling.
msg = format(tl['crawl_component_added_examples'],
response.add_count, self.lastSourceType);
self.setStatus(msg);
self.drawStatistics(response);
} else {
self.drawDocumentCount(response.num_docs);
}
},
'onFailure': function() {
loading.clear();
self.setStatus(tl['crawl_component_load_failed']);
}
});
}
/*
* Encodes any labels stored in the labels var as POST data, and sends a
* request to add these labels (using the document url as a key) to
* the classifier controller on the server. This method is called by the
* handleAction method in order to actually send the new label (or skip) to
* the server.
*
* @param object doc document to send a label for
* @param int label user-assigned label
*/
self.sendNewLabel = function(doc, label)
{
var loading = loadingText(self.elt.label_docs_status,
tl['crawl_component_loading']);
sendRequest({
'url': '?c=classifier&a=classify&arg=addlabel',
'postdata': {
'session': self.authSession,
'time': self.authTime,
'label': self.classLabel,
'index': self.lastSource,
'type': self.lastSourceType,
'keywords': self.lastKeywords,
'doc_to_label': {
'docid': doc.id,
'key': doc.key,
'label': label
}
},
'onSuccess': function(response) {
loading.clear();
self.authSession = response.authSession;
self.authTime = response.authTime;
if (response.new_doc) {
/*
There may still be an active document in the case that
we were re-labelling an old document, but now we want to
replace it.
*/
self.clearActiveDocument();
self.setActiveDocument(response.new_doc);
}
self.drawStatistics(response);
self.drawDocumentCount(response.num_docs);
},
'onFailure': function() {
loading.clear();
self.setStatus(tl['crawl_component_label_update_failed']);
}
});
}
/*
* Sends a request to the server to initiate an accuracy update, and on
* response updates the statistics (which includes reporting the current
* accuracy estimate, if any). Normally, the accuracy is only estimated
* each time a set number of documents have been added to the training set.
* The update accuracy functionality lets the user request an update
* without having to actually add more documents.
*/
self.requestAccuracyUpdate = function()
{
var updating = tl['crawl_component_updating'];
var loading = loadingText(self.elt.update_accuracy, updating, {
'dots': false,
'className': 'disabled'
});
sendRequest({
'url': '?c=classifier&a=classify&arg=updateaccuracy',
'postdata': {
'session': self.authSession,
'time': self.authTime,
'label': self.classLabel,
'index': self.lastSource,
'type': self.lastSourceType,
'keywords': self.lastKeywords,
},
'onSuccess': function(response) {
self.authSession = response.authSession;
self.authTime = response.authTime;
self.drawStatistics(response);
loading.clear();
},
'onFailure': function() {
loading.clear();
self.setStatus(tl['crawl_component_acc_update_failed']);
}
});
}
/**
* Builds and displays a new active document record for the document data
* received from the server. This method both registers the document data
* in internal data structures, and creates the DOM structure to display
* the document to the user. If this is the very first document to be
* labeled since page load, then the table that holds documents is created
* before the new document is inserted into the DOM.
*
* @param object doc data structure representing the new active document
*/
self.setActiveDocument = function(doc) {
doc.id = self.docCounter++;
self.documents[doc.id] = doc;
self.activeDocument = doc;
// Create table if it doesn't yet exist.
if (!self.elt.label_docs_queue) {
var queue = document.createElement('table');
queue.id = 'label-docs-queue';
self.elt.label_docs_form.parentNode.insertBefore(
queue, self.elt.label_docs_form.nextElementSibling);
self.elt.label_docs_queue = queue;
}
var newRow = self.buildDocumentRow(doc);
doc.element = newRow;
var topDoc = self.elt.label_docs_queue.firstChild;
if (topDoc) {
self.elt.label_docs_queue.insertBefore(newRow, topDoc);
} else {
self.elt.label_docs_queue.appendChild(newRow);
}
}
/*
* Removes the active document from the DOM and from the internal set of
* documents completely. This is done when abandoning the current candidate
* pool for another, and is NOT the same as skipping the active document.
*/
self.clearActiveDocument = function()
{
if (self.activeDocument) {
var topDoc = self.activeDocument.element;
self.elt.label_docs_queue.removeChild(topDoc);
delete self.documents[self.activeDocument.id];
}
self.activeDocument = null;
}
/*
* Updates the display of the counts of positive and negative examples and
* the estimated accuracy. Each time the server responds to a request, it
* passes along the classifier's current counts and accuracy estimate to
* keep the client presentation of these statistics in sync.
*
* @param object response data from the last server request
*/
self.drawStatistics = function(response)
{
self.elt.positive_count.innerHTML = response.positive;
self.elt.negative_count.innerHTML = response.negative;
if (response.accuracy === null) {
self.elt.accuracy.innerHTML = tl['crawl_component_na'];
} else {
self.elt.accuracy.innerHTML = format('{1}%',
(response.accuracy * 100).toFixed(1));
}
}
/*
* Updates the display of the number of documents currently in the
* candidate pool. Since candidates are being iterated over on the server
* rather than loaded in all at once, it is unknown exactly how many there
* are until the pool has been exhausted. To reflect this situation, when
* there are more candidates than will fit in the current pool, a plus sign
* is appended to the current count.
*
* @param int num_docs number of documents in the server's candidate pool
*/
self.drawDocumentCount = function(num_docs)
{
var msg;
if (!num_docs) {
msg = tl['crawl_component_no_docs'];
} else {
var count, plus;
if (num_docs == MAX_UNLABELLED_BUFFER_SIZE) {
count = MAX_UNLABELLED_BUFFER_SIZE - 1;
plus = '+';
} else {
count = num_docs;
plus = '';
}
msg = format(tl['crawl_component_num_docs'], count, plus);
}
self.setStatus(msg);
}
/*
* A shortcut for setting the HTML of the element that displays document
* counts.
*/
self.setStatus = function(msg)
{
self.elt.label_docs_status.innerHTML = msg;
}
/*
* Builds the DOM element representing a document. Each document is
* represented by a row in a table, where the row has two cells, the first
* dedicated to action links (e.g., for marking a document as a positive
* example) and the second to summarizing the document.
*
* @param object doc data structure representing the new document
* @return object table row DOM element representing the document
*/
self.buildDocumentRow = function(doc)
{
var tr = document.createElement('tr');
tr.id = 'doc-' + doc.id;
tr.innerHTML =
tags('td', {'class': 'actions'},
self.buildActionLinkHTML(tl['crawl_component_in_class'],
'inclass', doc),
self.buildActionLinkHTML(tl['crawl_component_not_in_class'],
'notinclass', doc),
self.buildActionLinkHTML(tl['crawl_component_skip'],
'skip', doc)
) +
tags('td', {'class': 'info'},
tags('p', {'class': 'page-link'},
tags('a', {'href': doc.cache_link}, doc.title)),
tags('p', {'class': 'echo-link'}, doc.url),
tags('p', {'class': 'prediction'},
self.buildPredictionHTML(doc)),
doc.description && doc.description.length > 0 ?
tags('p', {'class': 'description'}, doc.description) :
''
);
return tr;
}
/*
* Builds an anchor element used to allow a user to mark a document as a
* positive or negative example, or to skip it. The anchor has an onclick
* attribute that calls the handleAction method with the document id and
* action.
*
* @param string label anchor text displayed to the user
* @param string action action associated with this anchor
* @param object doc data structure representing the document the action
* should be applied to
* @return object paragraph DOM element wrapping the created anchor
*/
self.buildActionLinkHTML = function(label, action, doc)
{
var onclick = 'return Classifier.handleAction(' + doc.id +
",'" + action + "')";
var link = tags('a', {
'class': action,
'href': '#' + action,
'onclick': onclick
}, label);
return tags('p', {}, '[', link, ']');
}
/*
* Builds an HTML string that displays the classification confidence and
* disagreement score associated with a document, using data sent from the
* server.
*
* @param object doc data structure representing the document
* @return string HTML string to be used to display confidence and
* disagreement
*/
self.buildPredictionHTML = function(doc)
{
label = (doc.positive ? '' : 'not ') + self.classLabel;
var prediction = format(tl['crawl_component_prediction'], label);
var scores = format(tl['crawl_component_scores'],
(doc.confidence * 100).toFixed(1),
(doc.disagreement * 100).toFixed(1));
return format('<b>{1}</b> ({2})', prediction, scores);
}
/* UTILITY FUNCTIONS */
/*
* Builds a string containing a pair of HTML tags with optional attributes
* and nested elements. All arguments but the tag name are optional, but if
* nested elements are to be supplied, then attributes for the opening tag
* must be supplied as well, even if they're empty. Attributes are
* specified as an object where the keys are attribute names and their
* values are strings. Each nested element may be either an HTML string or
* an array of HTML strings, all of which will be concatenated together.
* This function creates ONLY closed HTML tags (e.g., <td>...</td>, and not
* <img.../>); the tag function should be used to create self-closing HTML
* tags.
*
* @param string tagname opening and closing tag name
* @param object attributes optional object for which the keys are
* attribute names, and the values are attribute values (may be empty)
* @param string|array nested... optional sequence of HTML strings or
* arrays of HTML strings to be nested within the opening and closing tags
* @return string HTML string for the described element
*/
function tags(tagname, attributes /* ... */)
{
var element = [makeOpenTag(tagname, attributes, '>')];
for (var i = 2; i < arguments.length; i++) {
var type = typeof(arguments[i]);
switch (type) {
case 'object':
element = element.concat(arguments[i]);
break;
case 'string':
if (arguments[i].length > 0)
element.push(arguments[i]);
break;
}
}
element.push('</' + tagname + '>');
return element.join('');
}
/*
* This function is just like the tags function, but creates a self-closing
* tag (e.g., <img.../>), which by necessity cannot contain nested
* elements.
*
* @param string tagname opening tag name
* @param object attributes optional object for which the keys are
* attribute names, and the values are attribute values (may be empty)
* @return string HTML string for the described element
*/
function tag(tagname, attributes)
{
return makeOpenTag(tagname, attributes, ' >');
}
/*
* A utility function to construct the opening tag of an HTML element, or a
* self-closing tag, along with optional attributes.
*
* @param string tagname opening tag name
* @param object attributes optional object for which the keys are
* attribute names, and the values are attribute values (may be empty)
* @return string HTML string for the opening (or self-closing) tag
*/
function makeOpenTag(tagname, attributes, endtag)
{
var tag = ['<' + tagname];
if (attributes) {
for (key in attributes) {
tag.push(' ' + key + '=' + '"' + attributes[key] + '"');
}
}
tag.push(endtag);
return tag.join('');
}
/*
* A simple string formatter that substitutes string arguments into a
* template string. The template string should contain substrings with the
* pattern '{\d+}' (e.g., {1}, {2}, ...), which will be replaced with the
* corresponding arguments passed to the format function. For example, any
* occurrence of '{1}' will be replaced by the first argument after the
* template string.
*
* @param string template template string that optionally contains sentinel
* sequences of the form '{\d+}' to be replaced
* @param string arg... positional arguments to be substituted into the
* template string
* @return string the template string with each sentinel pattern replaced
* by the appropriate argument
*/
function format(template /* ... */)
{
var args = arguments;
return template.replace(/\{(\d+)\}/g, function(match, i) {
var arg = args[parseInt(i)];
return typeof arg == 'object' ? JSON.stringify(arg) : arg;
});
}
/*
* Builds an XmlHttpRequest with optional POST data to be sent to the
* server, and calls the appropriate continuation function when the request
* completes or fails. The request is carried out asynchronously, and the
* response handlers are defined by the onSuccess and onFailure keys of the
* options object passed into this function. If the response content-type
* is set to application/json, then the response is JSON-decoded before
* being passed to the onSuccess handler. The options object supports the
* following keys:
*
* string url: URL to send the request to (required)
*
* string method: HTTP method to use (default GET, but changes to POST
* if postdata is specified without also setting the method)
*
* object postdata: object containing key/value pairs of POST arguments
* to be sent with the request; the values are automatically
* URI-encoded (optional)
*
* function onSuccess: function to be called upon the completion of a
* successful request; the response body is passed as the first and
* only argument, JSON-decoded if the response content-type was
* application/json (optional)
*
* function onFailure: function called if the request times out or
* otherwise can't be completed (optional)
*
* Example:
*
* sendRequest({
* 'url': '?c=classifier&a=classify&arg=getdocs',
* 'postdata': {
* 'time': self.authTime,
* 'session': self.authSession,
* 'label': self.classLabel,
* 'mix': label_docs_source.value
* 'keywords': label_docs_keywords.value
* },
* 'onSuccess': function(response) {
* ...
* },
* 'onFailure': function() {
* ...
* }
* });
*
* @param object options request options.
*/
function sendRequest(options)
{
if (!options.url) {
throw "sendRequest: 'url' option is required"
}
var method = options.method || 'GET';
var onSuccess = options.onSuccess || function() {};
var onFailure = options.onFailure || function() {};
var request = makeRequest();
if (!request) {
onFailure();
return false;
}
request.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (request.readyState == 4 && request.status == 200) {
var response = request.responseText;
var type = request.getResponseHeader('content-type');
if (type.match(/application\/json/)) {
response = JSON.parse(response);
}
onSuccess(response);
}
}
if (options.postdata) {
var postdata = buildQueryString(options.postdata);
if (!options.method) {
method = 'POST';
}
}
request.open(method, options.url, true);
if (postdata) {
request.setRequestHeader("Content-type",
"application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
request.send(postdata);
} else {
request.send();
}
}
/*
* Recursively builds a query string from an object, URI-encoding any
* strings. Nested objects are handled using the standard HTTP notation for
* nested arrays; for example, the element accessed in object notation by
* a.b.c would be converted to a[b][c] in the query string.
*
* @param object obj optionally-nested object to be converted to a query
* string
* @param string prefix optional prefix to prepend to keys in obj (used in
* recursive calls)
* @return string query string representation of obj
*/
function buildQueryString(obj, prefix)
{
var str = [];
for (var p in obj) {
p = encodeURIComponent(p);
var k = prefix ? prefix + "[" + p + "]" : p;
v = obj[p];
str.push(typeof v == "object" ?
buildQueryString(v, k) :
encodeURIComponent(k) + "=" + encodeURIComponent(v));
}
return str.join("&");
}
/*
* Removes a particular class from the passed-in element if it's present;
* otherwise does nothing.
*
* @param string className class name to remove
* @param object el DOM object to modify
*/
function removeClass(className, el)
{
var re = RegExp('(^| )'+className+'( |$)');
el.className = el.className.replace(re, '$1');
}
/*
* Adds a particular class to the passed-in element; if the element already
* has the class then it is deleted and the re-added, which should have no
* significant effect.
*
* @param string className class name to add
* @param object el DOM object to modify
*/
function addClass(className, el)
{
removeClass(className, el);
el.className += ' ' + className;
}
/*
* Returns true if the passed in element has a particular class, and false
* otherwise.
*
* @param string className the class to check for
* @param object el DOM object to query
* @return bool true if el has class className, and false otherwise
*/
function hasClass(className, el)
{
var re = RegExp('(^| )'+className+'( |$)');
return el.className.search(re) != -1;
}
/*
* Places an element into a loading state, optionally adding a class and
* setting some text, and provides a method to call in order to cancel the
* loading state. The basic use case is to replace some text element with
* 'Loading...' text at the beginning of an asynchronous request, then to
* revert back to the pre-loading state once the request completes. This
* function returns an object with a clear method, which may be called in
* order to cancel the loading state. The options object may contain the
* following fields:
*
* bool dots: whether to automatically append dots to the loading text
* with the passage of a set time interval; the dots start over
* each time they reach three (default true)
*
* int dotsInterval: how long to wait before drawing the next dot
* (default 333ms)
*
* string className: class name to add to the element when loading
* starts, and to remove when it completes (default none)
*
* Example:
*
* var loading = loadingText(el, 'Loading');
* someAsynchronousAction({
* onComplete: function() {
* loading.clear();
* ...
* }
* });
*
* @param object el DOM object to be manipulated
* @param string text loading text with which to replace el's innerHTML
* @param object options loading options
* @return object object with a clear method, which can be called in order
* to cancel the loading state, restoring everything to the way it was
* before loading started
*/
function loadingText(el, text, options)
{
if (options == undefined) {
options = {};
}
var oldHTML = el.innerHTML;
var drawDots = options.dots !== false;
var interval = options.dotsInterval || 333;
var timer;
if (drawDots) {
timer = window.setInterval(function() {
if (el.innerHTML.match(/\.{3}$/)) {
el.innerHTML = text;
} else {
el.innerHTML += '.';
}
}, interval);
}
if (options.className) {
addClass(options.className, el);
}
el.innerHTML = text;
return obj = {
'clear': function() {
if (drawDots) {
window.clearInterval(timer);
}
el.innerHTML = oldHTML;
if (options.className) {
removeClass(options.className, el);
}
}
};
}
return self;
})();
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