On Sun, 27 Mar 2016, Bob Paulin wrote:
Currently the Apache POI dependency is in several modules and it's sort
of a beast (> 2 MB in size).
You should've seen it before Jukka and Yegor spent a crazy ApacheCon
hacking up the ooxml-lite support... ;-)
It appears many of the modules are only using the IOUtils library.
I suspect a strong overlap with the parser classes I've helped write...
Any concerns with replacing this POI stuff with commons-io? Does POI
offer anything above the commons-io functionality in IOUtils? If not I
think it would be great to isolate the poi dependency to the office
module only.
A lot of the use is for endian-specific reading of numbers and strings.
Might be a bit of stream stuff, but mostly that can be passed off to the
Tika IO utils classes.
From a quick check, I can't see any endian number stuff in commons IO, but
I might of missed it, or it might be in a different commons module. If
not, there might be something to be said for popping that POI logic along
with some of the Ogg-Vorbis utils stuff (another one with my grubby mits
all over it) into a more helpful general utils grouping
Nick
