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Tyler Palsulich edited comment on TIKA-1420 at 9/24/14 12:40 AM:
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[~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? 



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