Hi, I wanted to start submitting patches for the following and would like your input on that:
Create one "Core Properties" interface for the Metadata class which contains just the keys for the properties which should be directly addressable through the Metadata class in the future. Those are all DublinCore plus copyright and a bit of other relevant stuff. Those keys will be the ones we have had before like "Title", "Keywords", "Format", etc. The keys will always link to properties of other namespace interfaces like: String Title = DublinCore.Title.getName(); String Author = DublinCore.Creator.getName(); On a side note: This version is a bit different for the DublinCore namespace to what is provided by TIKA-859. Instead of introducing a new DC_Creator property I would keep the current Creator property in the Core interface and by removing DublinCore interface from the Metadata class, the core property can easily alias the DC ones like above. I would provide a new patch for TIKA-859. The keys of all other interfaces currently included in the Metadata class will be either removed to avoid conflicts with the Core interface or declared @Deprecated and replacements will be offered by specific namespace interfaces. For example: MSOffice.Author -> removed, replaced by new CoreProperties.Author which links to DublinCore.Creator MSOffice.Template -> kept, but declared deprecated and replaced by new OfficeOpenXMLExtended.Template In the long term all interfaces except the core one should be removed from the Metadata class, otherwise we end up with tons of naming conflicts. WDYT? Regards Jörg --- Jörg Ehrlich | Computer Scientist | XMP Technology | Adobe Systems | joerg.ehrl...@adobe.com | work: +49(40)306360
