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Ken Krugler commented on TIKA-514:
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Just to capture all of the permutations, I'd proposed another solution, which 
was to add a new TikaConfig() constructor that took a list of target Parser 
classes (plus the classloader), thus avoiding the instantiation of unsupported 
parsers that happened to be found on the classpath.

This would also require a new TikaConfig.setDefaultConfig() static method, and 
the TikaConfig class would need to be immutable (for safety).

> Provide constructor for AutoDetectParser that has explicit list of supported 
> parsers
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>
>                 Key: TIKA-514
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-514
>             Project: Tika
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 0.7
>            Reporter: Ken Krugler
>            Assignee: Ken Krugler
>             Fix For: 0.8
>
>
> To reduce the size of the Tika dependency chain, it's useful to exclude the 
> supporting jars for types that don't need to process (e.g. Microsoft docs, 
> PDFs, etc). This can easily remove 20MB of 3rd party jars.
> With 0.8-SNAPSHOT, the TikaConfig(Classpath) constructor now finds and 
> instantiates all Parser-based classes found on the classpath. Which can 
> trigger errors when 3rd party jars are missing.
> One solution, as proposed by Jukka, is to provide an alternative constructor 
> for AutoDetectParser which includes the list of supported parsers, and avoids 
> creating the default TikaConfig.

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