[jira] [Assigned] (TIKA-1634) Detecting problem with Matlab source code

["Chris A. Mattmann (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Chris A. Mattmann reassigned TIKA-1634:
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    Assignee: Chris A. Mattmann

> Detecting problem with Matlab source code
> -----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: TIKA-1634
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1634
>             Project: Tika
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: mime
>    Affects Versions: 1.8
>            Reporter: Ji-Hyun Oh
>            Assignee: Chris A. Mattmann
>            Priority: Trivial
>              Labels: earthcube
>         Attachments: BARCAST_MainCode.m, Initial_Vals_Maker.m, custom-mimetypes.xml, tika-mimetypes.xml, wtsgaus.m
>
>
> Both Matlab source code and Objective-C source code have the same suffix, which is .m. Therefore, Matlab has additional match value in mime types.xml. 
> In tika-mimetypes.xml Matlab is defined as:
>   <mime-type type="text/x-matlab">
>     <_comment>Matlab source code</_comment>
>     <magic priority="50">
>       <match value="function [" type="string" offset="0"/>
>     </magic>
>     <!-- <glob pattern="*.m"/> - conflicts with text/x-objcsrc -->
>     <sub-class-of type="text/plain"/>
>   </mime-type>
> However, Matlab codes does not always start with "function [“. Therefore, some Matlab codes are detected as text/x-bojcsrc. Based on the source codes collected from NOAA Paleoclimatology Software Resources, many Matlab codes have match value like these (problematic files are attached as an example):
> <mime-type type="text/x-matlab">
>     <_comment>Matlab source code</_comment>
>     <magic priority="50">
>       <match value="function" type="string" offset="0"/>
>       <match value="%" type="string" offset="0"/>
>     </magic>
>     <!-- <glob pattern="*.m"/> - conflicts with text/x-objcsrc -->
>     <sub-class-of type="text/plain"/>
>   </mime-type>
> Conducted several detecting tests by using different Matlab packages obtained from NOAA Paleoclimatology Software Resources, with/without Custom-mimtypes.xml. Results are attached. As a results, total 103 Matlab files are detected correctly with custom-mimetypes.xml, while  42 Matlab files are detected as Matlab files without custom-mimetypes.xml (= only with current match value). However, this match value for Matlab source code could be only common in Paleoclimatology community. 



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