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Tim Allison commented on TIKA-1236:
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I'll take a look at the history of OutlookParser today.
I agree that the user should have a way of knowing if an unsupported encoding
was identified.
A few questions:
1) Does anyone know why OutlookParser uses CharsetDetector and not
EncodingDetector or AutoDetectReader? Is there still a use case for
CharsetDetector instead of EncodingDetector?
2) Is the license at the header of CharsetDetector consistent with ASL2?
3) Given that HTMLEncodingDetector, Icu4JEncodingDetector and
UniversalEncodingDetector check for whether a charset is supported before
returning it, should we modify those to add "Unsupported-Encoding" or similar
(hopefully something consistent with xmp/dc) to a document's metadata?
If the answer to 1) is that OutlookParser just hasn't yet been updated to
AutoDetectReader and there is no known performance reason to keep
CharsetDetector, then I propose:
a) updating OutlookParser to use AutoDetectReader
b) opening a new issue to modify the other three detectors to add metadata for
unsupported encodings
Then, if a user wants Tika to fallback to a default encoding, s/he can add a
dummy "AlwaysASCIIEncodingDetector" (or similar) to the list of
EncodingDetectors. The client can also check the metadata for unsupported
encodings that a detector ranked higher than the encoding that was used.
> CharsetDetector returning unsupported encoding for some 7-bit Outlook/MSG
> files
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: TIKA-1236
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1236
> Project: Tika
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: parser
> Affects Versions: 1.6
> Reporter: Tim Allison
> Priority: Minor
>
> When parsing a 7-bit encoded Outlook post (.msg without headers), Tika tries
> to detect the encoding. For a handful of files, the CharsetDetector returns
> "IBM424_rtl" with a confidence > the threshold. This encoding is then set
> with MAPIMessage.set7BitEncoding(). When MAPI tries to use this encoding, it
> finds that it is unsupported and throws an exception.
> Full stacktrace:
> {noformat}
> org.apache.tika.exception.TikaException: Unexpected RuntimeException from
> org.apache.tika.parser.microsoft.OfficeParser@72ccd846
> at
> org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:244)
> at
> org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:242)
> at
> org.apache.tika.parser.AutoDetectParser.parse(AutoDetectParser.java:120)
> at
> org.apache.tika.parser.microsoft.OutlookParserTest.testOutlookEncoding(OutlookParserTest.java:264)
> ...irrelevant test framework junk...
> Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Encoding not found - IBM424_rtl
> at
> org.apache.poi.hsmf.datatypes.StringChunk.parseAs7BitData(StringChunk.java:149)
> at
> org.apache.poi.hsmf.datatypes.StringChunk.parseString(StringChunk.java:85)
> at
> org.apache.poi.hsmf.datatypes.StringChunk.set7BitEncoding(StringChunk.java:74)
> at org.apache.poi.hsmf.MAPIMessage.set7BitEncoding(MAPIMessage.java:455)
> at
> org.apache.tika.parser.microsoft.OutlookExtractor.parse(OutlookExtractor.java:95)
> at
> org.apache.tika.parser.microsoft.OfficeParser.parse(OfficeParser.java:223)
> at
> org.apache.tika.parser.microsoft.OfficeParser.parse(OfficeParser.java:167)
> at
> org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:242)
> ... 26 more
> Caused by: java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException: IBM424_rtl
> at java.lang.StringCoding.decode(Unknown Source)
> at java.lang.String.<init>(Unknown Source)
> at java.lang.String.<init>(Unknown Source)
> at
> org.apache.poi.hsmf.datatypes.StringChunk.parseAs7BitData(StringChunk.java:147)
> ... 33 more
> {noformat}
> Unfortunately, I can't share the problematic documents, and I can't create a
> synthetic document that triggers this issue.
> Two questions:
> 1) Should CharsetDetector return an encoding that is not supported?
> 2) If so, should we add a simple check before calling set7BitEncoding()?
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