[jira] [Created] (TIKA-1488) Add X-Tika- as "namespace" for info from Tika about the parsing process

["Tim Allison (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Tim Allison created TIKA-1488:
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             Summary: Add X-Tika- as "namespace" for info from Tika about the parsing process
                 Key: TIKA-1488
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1488
             Project: Tika
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Tim Allison
            Priority: Trivial


As we discuss moving into more complex combinations of parsers, there may be a usefulness for Tika to report information about the parsing process via the Metadata object.  There are a few areas where we're already doing this, such as the "X-ParsedBy" key or a few others that I've added in the RTFParser, the PDFParser and the RecursiveParserWrapper.

I'm opening this issue for discussion and input from the community.

Proposal 1: We add a prefix String "X-TIKA-" to TikaCoreProperties that parsers should use as a property prefix when they want to report something about the parsing process via the Metadata object, e.g.:

X-TIKA-millisToParse
X-TIKA-embeddedDocException

Proposal 2: We start adding specific properties to TikaCoreProperties or maybe create a TikaMetaMetaProperties class to store these. :)

Do we want to do something like this?  Is there a better mechanism?



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