Hello Tim.
Which version of MIME4J are you using?
How long is too long?
I think having a JMH micro-benchmark covering your use case might be relevant!
I also think we have no benchmarks for mbox parsing...
Regarding your solution, wouldn't it be simpler to just ignore these 5MB long
messages and keep parsing the mbox files nonetheless? (MimeConfig can limit
maximum header count)
Or process these 5MB byte long messages as body? (EG happending /r/n at the
beginning) If fonctionnaly acceptable that would be easier than touching the
heart of mime4j...
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On Sep 15, 2023 1:01 AM, from Tim Clotworthy Good afternoon,
I have data parsing challenge related to our use of mime4j. We encounter mbox
data that is unconventional in structure, but we are required to process
nonetheless. The particular mbox files we are having issues with are very large
(some over 5MB), and are headers-only. Mime4j likely is parsing the files
properly, but the time it takes is prohibitively long.
We use the MimeTokenStream parser. We don't believe this can be addressed in
configuration (i.e. via MimeConfig).
An ideal situation would be to be able to specify if the number of headers
processed exceeds maxHeaders, then stop parsing, reset the stream pointer to
the beginning of the input stream and just output as one giant header (or
body?) or, probably more realistically, chuck the output in chunks manageable
for whatever is reasonable for IO parsing of this nature.
Otherwise, I guess it's a custom coding solution? It would appear that it would
perhaps involve a custom parser that extends or borrows from MimeStreamParser
or MimeTokenStream, or both. For instance, below is the critical area of code
from MimeStreamParser where we want to avoid getting stuck in processing these
5 MB header-only files.
Grateful for any response. Thanks!
while(true) {
EntityState state = this.mimeTokenStream.getState();
switch (state) {
case T_BODY:
BodyDescriptor desc =
this.mimeTokenStream.getBodyDescriptor();
InputStream bodyContent;
if (this.contentDecoding) {
bodyContent =
this.mimeTokenStream.getDecodedInputStream();
} else {
bodyContent = this.mimeTokenStream.getInputStream();
}
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