Tim Allison created TIKA-1528: --------------------------------- Summary: Add an OverrideDetector that overrides other detectors Key: TIKA-1528 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1528 Project: Tika Issue Type: Improvement Reporter: Tim Allison Priority: Minor
While working on TIKA-1511, I found a need to bypass our current detection mechanism. I think that there are other use cases for this. The idea is that a client or a tika-internal call wants to specify the Content-Type for a document and bypass the regular mime detection chain. We currently have the TypeDetector that returns the "Content-Type" as specified in the Metadata, but there are two deficiencies in using that class for this purpose: * Content-Type is ambiguous, currently, when it comes into a Parser or Detector, it could be used as a hint or as a direction. I'd like the OverrideDetector to use a different metadata key from our usual "Content-Type. * The ordering of the TypeDetector is based on alphabetic order of its class name. I'd like the OverrideDetector to be run first and then short circuit/bypass the other detectors. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)