from scrapy import log
# from scrapy.http import Request


class Parser:
    '''
    website should be an regular expression of the urls of request the parser is able to parse.
    '''
    website = "http://something/*"
    __spider = None

    def parse(self, reponse):
        log.msg("The parse function of the empty parser was used.", level=log.WARNING)
        pass

    def new_compound_request(self, compound):
        # return Request(url=self.website[:-1] + compound, callback=self.parse)
        pass

    def set_spider(self, spider):
        self.__spider = spider