[SOLR-7633] Change the ExtractingRequestHandler to use Tika-Server

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Reopened
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 5.0.1
• Component/s: contrib - Solr Cell (Tika extraction)
• Labels: memex
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Chris A. Mattmann
• Created: 04/Jun/15 03:06
• Updated: 04/Sep/20 12:55
• Resolved: 04/Jun/15 03:11

Description

It's a pain to upgrade Tika's jars all the times when we release, and if Tika fails it messes up the ExtractingRequestHandler (e.g., the document type caused Tika to fail, etc). A more reliable way and also separated, and easier to deploy version of the ExtractingRequestHandler would make a network call to the Tika JAXRS server, and then call Tika on the Solr server side, get the results and then index the information that way. I have a patch in the works from the DARPA Memex project and I hope to post it soon.

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• is related to: SOLR-7632 Change the ExtractingRequestHandler to use Tika-Server