[TIKA-3750] Bug in sorting parsers

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.4.1
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Tim Allison
• Created: 04/May/22 16:00
• Updated: 04/May/22 21:06
• Resolved: 04/May/22 19:32

Description

Throughout our documentation and unit tests, we declare that parsers with a different namespace than org.apache.tika should come first. The problem is that the DefaultParser iterates through the list of parsers and overwrites parsers based on supported mime types.

So, if there's a custom parser com.acme.parser.PDFParser that supports application/pdf, that will be added to the map of parsers in DefaultParser first and then overwritten by org.apache.tika's PDFParser.

We should instead sort non-o.a.t. parsers last, no?