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Bob Paulin commented on TIKA-1769: ---------------------------------- Hi Joseph, the issue with ExternalParsers in OSGi goes a bit deeper that that. There is actually a split package with the tika-core bundle. See TIKA-1507. > External parsers can't be used when using tika-bundle > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Key: TIKA-1769 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1769 > Project: Tika > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 1.10 > Reporter: Joseph North > > {{tika-bundle}} does not import the {{org.apache.tika.parser.external}} > package, so you can't use parsers that require the {{ExternalParser}} class. > One example is the {{GDALParser}}: > java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/tika/parser/external/ExternalParser > at org.apache.tika.parser.gdal.GDALParser.parse(GDALParser.java:233) > at > org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:280) > at > org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:280) > at > org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:280) > at > org.apache.tika.parser.AutoDetectParser.parse(AutoDetectParser.java:120) > ... > Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: > org.apache.tika.parser.external.ExternalParser cannot be found by > org.apache.tika.bundle_1.10.0 > at > org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClassInternal(BundleLoader.java:501) > at > org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClass(BundleLoader.java:421) > at > org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClass(BundleLoader.java:412) > at > org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.DefaultClassLoader.loadClass(DefaultClassLoader.java:107) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357) -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)