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Tyler Palsulich edited comment on TIKA-1420 at 9/24/14 12:40 AM: ----------------------------------------------------------------- [~gagravarr], sounds good! So, would that involve overriding the {{characters}} method to 1) check the characters for a phone number, add them to the metadata, and 2) pass that to the underlying Handler's character's method? Checking for phone numbers would involve adding an additional dependency on [libphonenumber|https://code.google.com/p/libphonenumber/], an ALv2.0 "library for parsing, formatting, storing and validating international phone numbers." was (Author: tpalsulich): [~gagravarr], sounds good! So, would that involve overriding the {{ characters }} method to 1) check the characters for a phone number, add them to the metadata, and 2) pass that to the underlying Handler's character's method? Checking for phone numbers would involve adding an additional dependency on [libphonenumber|https://code.google.com/p/libphonenumber/], an ALv2.0 "library for parsing, formatting, storing and validating international phone numbers." > Add Metadata Extraction to Arbitrary Parsers > -------------------------------------------- > > Key: TIKA-1420 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1420 > Project: Tika > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: parser > Reporter: Tyler Palsulich > Priority: Minor > > Suppose you wish to extract information from arbitrary file types and add it > to a Metadata Object. This type of task is best handled by a... Handler. But, > Handlers do not have access to the Metadata Object passed to a Parser. > So, I see a few ways we could do using existing functionality. > 1) Make an intermediate XML representation of the desired metadata in a > handler, then convert the XML to the Metadata after parsing. > 2) Create a second Parser which extracts the desired information. > a) Assume the Handler passed to this Parser is already filled with > content. So, we could simply get whatever content from the Handler and > populate the Metadata directly. > b) Create a new Stream in the first Parser to pass to the second, which > in turn populates the Metadata. > None of these options seem ideal. Is there a better way to handle this > scenario? Or, can we create some sort of... wrapper for a Handler which can > accept a Metadata Object to populate directly? -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)