[SOLR-1274] Provide multiple output formats in extract-only mode for tika handler

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4
• Fix Version/s: 1.4
• Assignee: Grant Ingersoll
• Reporter: Peter Wolanin
• Created: 13/Jul/09 19:27
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:29
• Resolved: 08/Aug/09 01:39

Description

The proposed feature is to accept a URL parameter when using extract-only mode to specify an output format. This parameter might just overload the existing "ext.extract.only" so that one can optionally specify a format, e.g. false|true|xml|text where true and xml give the same response (i.e. xml remains the default)

I had been assuming that I could choose among possible tika output
formats when using the extracting request handler in extract-only mode
as if from the CLI with the tika jar:

-x or --xml Output XHTML content (default)
-h or --html Output HTML content
-t or --text Output plain text content
-m or --metadata Output only metadata

However, looking at the docs and source, it seems that only the xml
option is available (hard-coded) in ExtractingDocumentLoader.java

serializer = new XMLSerializer(writer, new OutputFormat("XML", "UTF-8", true));

Providing at least a plain-text response seems to work if you change the serializer to a TextSerializer (org.apache.xml.serialize.TextSerializer).

Issue Links

• depends upon: SOLR-284 Parsing Rich Document Types