This makes sense. I think providing an "all" jar with all the parsers will be convenient for new developers. The modular parsers would give more developers a means to insulate themselves from changes and upgrades to other parsers. This is currently not available when all of the parsers are combine. So my expectation would be that the jar with all the parsers would be good for general applications or POC. While the modules would target production deployments where developers know what they want and would like to limit risk. Also agree that new documentation will be required!
- Bob On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Nick Burch <apa...@gagravarr.org> wrote: > On Mon, 30 Nov 2015, Allison, Timothy B. wrote: > >> Perhaps we could start with a tika-advanced-bundle to gather all of the >> nlp/advanced parsers? Or would this have to wait for Tika 2.0? >> > > I've noticed that there have been a lot fewer queries (on our list, on > stackoverflow, at events etc) caused by people missing jars of late. Not > sure of the message has got out there better, the right posts are getting > to the top of google, the troubleshooting page has done its magic, or > something else entirely! But I'm now less worried about the impact of > modular parsers on newbies that I have been before > > To try to avoid all the existing guidance (most of it external) from going > stale, I'd lean towards either keeping "tika-parsers" as the full version, > or make "tika-parsers" be an alias to "tika-parsers-all", so that current > behaviour remains > > I'd also probably suggest we change the default load error handler to > warn/log, so that people by default will find out more quickly that they've > missed jars, and probably also have an extra load error log/check which > triggers in the event of 0 parser definitions being found. People can turn > that off if they want, as now, but maybe the new default should be so that > newbies tend to get told quickly what they've done wrong! > > Oh, and we'll need to update the troubleshooting page too for the new > bundles world :) > > Nick >
