Getting the status of a crawl

Call the IasCrawler.getStatus() method to retrieve the status of a crawl.

The syntax of the method is:

IasCrawler.getStatus(CrawlId crawlId)

The crawlId parameter is a CrawlId object that contains the name of the crawl for which status is to be returned.

The method returns a Status object, which will have the status of the crawl as a CrawlerState simple data type:

NOT_RUNNING
STOPPING
RUNNING

To get the status of a crawl:

Make sure that you have created a connection to the IAS Server. (An IasCrawler object named crawler is used in this example.)
Set the name for the crawl by first instantiating a CrawlId object and then setting its ID in the constructor.
For example:
```
// Create a new crawl ID with the name set to Demo.
CrawlId crawlId = new CrawlId("Demo");
```
Declare a CrawlerState variable and initialize it by calling the IasCrawler.getStatus() method with the crawl ID. Note that the status is actually returned by the State.getState() method.
For example:
```
CrawlerState state;
state = crawler.getStatus(crawlId).getState();
```

Print the status.

For example:

System.out.println("Crawl status: " + state);

The IasCrawler.getStatus() method throws a CrawlNotFoundException if the specified crawl (the crawlId parameter) does not exist or is otherwise not found. To catch an exception, use a try block with the appropriate catch clause.