All,
Nick recommended I put the question to the dev list for discussion. It might
be useful to centralize our json handling of Metadata. We are now currently
using different libraries and doing different things in CLI and in tika-server.
1) Do we want to centralize json handling of Metadata?
2) If so, where? Core? I share Nick's hesitance to add a dependency to core.
OTOH, GSON is only 186k, but this would add potential for jar conflicts with
folks integrating Tika, and it doesn't feel like a core function to me...it is
a handy decorator for applications.
3) Wherever it goes, what package do we want to put it in? I like Nick's
recommendations, with a slight preference for the second (oat.utils.json).
Thank you!
Best,
Tim
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Subject: [jira] [Commented] (TIKA-1311) Centralize JSON handling of Metadata
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Nick Burch commented on TIKA-1311:
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If we put it into core, we'd need to add another dependency (to GSON) which
isn't ideal, so we might want to run the plan past the dev list first to see
what people think (core tends to try to have a very minimal set of deps, unlike
the other modules)
Package wise, org.apache.tika.metadata.json is what I'd lean towards, otherwise
utils.json
> Centralize JSON handling of Metadata
> ------------------------------------
>
> Key: TIKA-1311
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1311
> Project: Tika
> Issue Type: Task
> Reporter: Tim Allison
> Priority: Minor
>
> When json was initially added to TIKA CLI (TIKA-213), there was a
> recommendation to centralize JSON handling of Metadata, potentially putting
> it in core. On a recent bug fix (TIKA-1291), the same recommendation was
> repeated especially noting that we now handle JSON/Metadata differently in
> CLI and server.
> Let's centralize JSON handling in core and use GSON. We should add a
> serializer and a deserializer so that users don't have to reinvent that wheel.
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