[SOLR-13973] Deprecate Tika

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: contrib - Solr Cell (Tika extraction)
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ishan Chattopadhyaya
• Created: 26/Nov/19 21:57
• Updated: 19/Oct/22 17:03

Description

Solr's primary responsibility should be to focus on search and scalability. Having to deal with the problems (CVEs) of Velocity, Tika etc. can slow us down. I propose that we deprecate it going forward.

Tika can be run outside Solr. Going forward, if someone wants to use these, it should be possible to bring them into third party packages and installed via package manager.

Plan is to just to throw warnings in logs and add deprecation notes in reference guide for now. Removal can be done in 9.0.

Issue Links

• is a child of: SOLR-13442 Lean Solr with minimal functionality
• is related to: SOLR-11721 Isolate most of Tika and dependencies into separate jvm
• is related to: SOLR-7632 Change the ExtractingRequestHandler to use Tika-Server
• is related to: SOLR-15989 Upgrade to Tika 1.28.1
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1676
• mentioned in: Page Loading...