[TIKA-1497] tika-server cannot output JSON

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: server
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Peter Bowyer
• Created: 18/Dec/14 14:49
• Updated: 19/Dec/14 14:16
• Resolved: 19/Dec/14 03:15

Description

I would like the response from
curl -X PUT -T /path/to/file.pdf http://localhost:9998/meta
to be JSON and not CSV?.

I've discovered JSONMessageBodyWriter.java (https://github.com/apache/tika/blob/af19f3ea04792cad81b428f1df9f5ebbb2501913/tika-server/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/server/JSONMessageBodyWriter.java) so I think the functionality is present, tried adding --header "Accept: application/json" to the cURL call, in line with the documentation for outputting CSV, but no luck so far.

According to sergey_beryozkin

"I see MetadataResource returning StreamingOutput and it has @Produces(text/csv) only. As such this MBW has no effect at the moment.

We can update MetadataResource to return Metadata directly if application/json is requested or update MetadataResource to directly convert Metadata to JSON in case of JSON being accepted."