Tika parsers should handle failures more gracefully
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Key: TIKA-815
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-815
Project: Tika
Issue Type: Test
Components: parser
Affects Versions: 1.0
Reporter: Jerome Lacoste
We encountered an OOM while parsing a Word document. We will report the failure
to POI.
This raises the question about the general robustness of the parsers.
We've written a little test tool that reproduces the aforementionned OOM and
other potential issues that will be reported to the individual parsers. It's
the responsibility of the parsers to handle those failures gracefully.
Yet it's easy to write generic tools at the Tika level to make these kind of
tests.
So we also submit this issue here to start a discussion on what role should
Tika have when it comes to validate its parsers.
Code here: https://github.com/lacostej/tika-hardener
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