[jira] [Reopened] (TIKA-775) Embed Capabilities

["Jukka Zitting (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-775?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Jukka Zitting reopened TIKA-775:
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There's a few problems with the implementation.

* The ExternalEmbedderTest fails in a plain Windows environment since it can't find {{sed}}. I added a workaround in revision 1411238 that simply disables the test on Windows.
* It would be better if ExternalEmbeddedTest was located in {{tika-core}} along with the ExternalEmbedder class itself. The use of TXTParser in the test case seems unnecessary.
* More generally the test case is quite complicated. Is it being reused elsewhere, or can we simplify it? I'd just drop all the extra logging, error handling and flag variables.
* The ExternalEmbedder class also seems quite complicated, though I notice much of it comes from ExternalParser. Can we for example refactor the common bits to a shared base class?
* See the ExternalParser class for how you can (and should) use the TemporaryResources class to avoid all the complex cleanup logic. Used properly, the {{dispose()}} method takes care of all that.
* It's usually a bad idea to capture InterruptedException and just ignore it. Throwing the exception (possibly wrapped into a TikaException) is probably a better approach.
                
> Embed Capabilities
> ------------------
>
>                 Key: TIKA-775
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-775
>             Project: Tika
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: general, metadata
>    Affects Versions: 1.0
>         Environment: The default ExternalEmbedder requires that sed be installed.
>            Reporter: Ray Gauss II
>              Labels: embed, patch
>             Fix For: 1.3
>
>         Attachments: embed_20121029.diff, embed.diff, tika-core-embed-patch.txt, tika-parsers-embed-patch.txt
>
>
> This patch defines and implements the concept of embedding tika metadata into a file stream, the reverse of extraction.
> In the tika-core project an interface defining an Embedder and a generic sed ExternalEmbedder implementation meant to be extended or configured are added.  These classes are essentially a reverse flow of the existing Parser and ExternalParser classes.
> In the tika-parsers project an ExternalEmbedderTest unit test is added which uses the default ExternalEmbedder (calls sed) to embed a value placed in Metadata.DESCRIPTION then verify the operation by parsing the resulting stream.

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