[OPENNLP-1428] Enhance DownloadUtil to avoid the use of hard-coded model urls

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.1
• Assignee: Richard Zowalla
• Reporter: Richard Zowalla
• Created: 30/Dec/22 12:03
• Updated: 28/Jan/23 15:00
• Resolved: 02/Jan/23 19:04

Description

As pointed out in https://github.com/apache/opennlp/pull/472, we should not rely on hard-coded URLs in DownloadUtil.

Instead we can parse the content of https://dlcdn.apache.org/opennlp/models/ud-models-1.0/ and automatically derive the related model files from it.