[JCR-1829] PlainTextExtractor returns an empty reader when encoding is unsupported

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4
• Fix Version/s: 1.5
• Component/s: jackrabbit-text-extractors
• Environment: Reproduced in Linux and Windows
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: hector rovira
• Created: 22/Oct/08 19:22
• Updated: 08/Dec/08 11:09
• Resolved: 23/Oct/08 08:06

Description

PlainTextExtractor is failing to index text files. Searching for content in text files is not coming back with results.

On the extractText(InputStream stream, String type, String encoding) method, the encoding is coming in as an empty string, and it throws the java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException at line 40 ( return new InputStreamReader(stream, encoding); ).

modifying the following statement fixes the problem:
before: if (encoding != null) {
after: if (encoding != null && !encoding.equals("")) {