Sergey Beryozkin created TIKA-1368:
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Summary: Improve the modularity of tika-parsers
Key: TIKA-1368
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1368
Project: Tika
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: packaging, parser
Reporter: Sergey Beryozkin
tika-parsers module has many strong transitive dependencies. This presents a
challenge to Maven tika-parsers users wishing to use only one or very few
Parser(s).
The fact the new Parsers are regularly added makes the exclusion process very
brittle. For example, an OSGI application switching from Tika 1.6 to Tika 1.7
and having an exclusion list in place may 'leak' a new parser lib into its
runtime.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1367
can help on its own but a more complete solution would ideally be in place.
Proposal:
1. Make tika-parsers transitive dependencies optional
2. Introduce tika-parsers-optional pom that will depend on tika-parsers but
exclude 3rd-party dependencies
Both 1 and 2 will depend on the resolution of TIKA-1367. IMHO 1 is cleaner,
users will be recommended to check the documentation and add the required
dependencies. 2 also works.
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