Possible update to Tika Server Unpacker service

[Sergey Beryozkin <sb...@gmail.com>]

Hi All,

As you know Tika Server [1] has a number of JAX-RS endpoints, with 
Unpacker service being one of them.

Unpacker resource has 2 methods, matching "/unpacker" and "/all" URI 
segments with Unpacker itself having a default JAX-RS @Path("/") 
annotation.

The problem here is that introducing new services having the same 
default "/" root ((such as Welcome service)) adds some unpredictability 
into the way Tika Server JAX-RS runtime finds the matching resource methods.

We expect that with the upgrade to CXF 3.0.0 (JAX-RS 2.0) this specific 
resource matching issue will be gone, however the preferred solution is 
to set a unique root Path for Unpacker service to optimize the way 
different services are matched going forward. The suggested migration 
path is:

"/unpacker" -> "/unpack"
"/all" -> "/unpack/all"

So if you used Unpacker and used URI "/unpacker" segments then after the 
upgrade you'd do "/unpack" instead, and if you did "/all" then you'd do 
"/unpack/all".

Do you have any concerns about it ? Only a minor migration effort will 
be expected. Ideally we'd update Unpacker now before it has become more 
widely used. We will probably go ahead with the update if no major 
concerns are expressed

thanks
Sergey



[1] http://wiki.apache.org/tika/TikaJAXRS