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[jira] [Commented] (TIKA-456) Support timeouts for parsers
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Luis Filipe Nassif commented on TIKA-456:
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Does ForkParser use a kind of timeout internally?
> Support timeouts for parsers
> ----------------------------
>
> Key: TIKA-456
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-456
> Project: Tika
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: parser
> Reporter: Ken Krugler
> Assignee: Chris A. Mattmann
>
> There are a number of reasons why Tika could hang while parsing. One common case is when a parser is fed an incomplete document, such as what happens when limiting the amount of data fetched during a web crawl.
> One solution is to create a TikaCallable that wraps the Tika parser, and then use this with a FutureTask. For example, when using a ParsedDatum POJO for the results of the parse operation, I do something like this:
> parser = new AutoDetectParser();
> Callable<ParsedDatum> c = new TikaCallable(parser, contenthandler, inputstream, metadata);
> FutureTask<ParsedDatum> task = new FutureTask<ParsedDatum>(c);
> Thread t = new Thread(task);
> t.start();
> ParsedDatum result = task.get(MAX_PARSE_DURATION, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
> And TikaCallable() looks like:
> class TikaCallable implements Callable<ParsedDatum> {
> public TikaCallable(Parser parser, ContentHandler handler, InputStream is, Metadata metadata) {
> _parser = parser;
> _handler = handler;
> _input = is;
> _metadata = metadata;
> ...
> }
> public ParsedDatum call() throws Exception {
> ....
> _parser.parse(_input, _handler, _metadata, new ParseContext());
> ....
> }
> }
> This seems like it would be generally useful, as I doubt that we'd ever be able to guarantee that none of the parsers being wrapped by Tika could ever hang.
> One idea is to create a TimeoutParser that wraps a regular Tika Parser. E.g. something like:
> Parser p = new TimeoutParser(new AutodetectParser(), 20, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
> Then the call to p.parse(...) would create a Callable (similar to the code above) and use the specified timeout when calling task.get().
> One minus with this approach is that it creates a new thread for each parse request, but I don't think the thread overhead is significant when compared to the typical parser operation.
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