Or maybe better with a pragma e.g.
return tika:parse(
(# basex:java-type java:java.io.File #){$file}
)
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Andy Bunce <bunce.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In my ongoing attempts to use various Java libraries, without writing any
> Java myself, I have trying Apache Tika.
> (http://tika.apache.org/1.4/api/org/apache/tika/Tika.html). With the tika
> jar on the classpath I hoped the following would work:
>
> import module namespace tika = "java:org.apache.tika.Tika";
> declare namespace File="java:java.io.File";
> let $file :=File:new("xx.pdf")
> return tika:parse($file)
>
> It generates the error
> Signature 'org.apache.tika.Tika.parse' is ambiguous
>
> Which maybe it is from some perspectives :-). I hoped some type
> information might be available in the $file variable to resolve this, but
> it appears not.
> I was wondering about the possibility of using Java type at the XQuery
> level e.g.
> let $file as java:java.io.File :=File:new("xx.pdf")
>
> Is there any way to avoid writing the couple of line Java class shim for
> this and similar cases?
>
> Regards
> /Andy
>
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