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[jira] [Resolved] (TIKA-4813) Clean up timeout logic in 4.x

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-4813?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Tim Allison resolved TIKA-4813.
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    Fix Version/s: 4.0.0
       Resolution: Fixed

> Clean up timeout logic in 4.x
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>                 Key: TIKA-4813
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-4813
>             Project: Tika
>          Issue Type: Task
>            Reporter: Tim Allison
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 4.0.0
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> Problem: Tika's timeout system was three incoherent knobs. A parser's own configured timeout got overwritten by an unrelated stall-detector setting. Timeouts couldn't compose across nesting (PDF → zip → OCR). A single timed-out subprocess could kill the whole worker JVM instead of just failing that one document.
> Proposal: every external call gets min(what it asked for, time left on the task). ParseTimeout (new, in tika-core) holds that remaining-time clock per task, shared automatically across recursion. ProcessUtils/TikaHttpClient apply the rule internally and checkpoint the clock while waiting, so a legitimately slow call doesn't look like a hang. TikaTimeoutException is now catchable (was an uncaught  RuntimeException), so one slow embedded file gets recorded and skipped instead of aborting the whole document; running out of total time now truncates cleanly instead of ending the pipes process.



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