[TIKA-3643] writeLimit for bytes in addition to characters

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.2.1
• Component/s: core
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Josh Burchard
• Created: 11/Jan/22 21:12
• Updated: 12/Jan/22 22:19

Description

jmssiera wrote up the enhancement request TIKA-3325 where he originally requested that the number of bytes be passed as the write limit.  I see that issue was marked as Resolved, but writeLimit is number of chars instead of number of bytes.

I have a use-case where the consumer side (an indexer) has a control for the maximum number of bytes to index.  When I'm using the writeLimit header with Tika and I'm extracting text from a document with mixed ASCII and multi-byte characters I can't get back exactly, for example, 6MB worth of text because I don't know a-priori what chars will be in the file.   

My ask here is for a new control, maybe "writeLimitBytes" where the number of characters returned breaks on the last coherent character.  Therefore the returned text would be <= writeLimitBytes but would more or less be close to that value.