Re: nutch 7.0 not fetching powerpoint, plugin is present

[Doug Cutting]

Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
3. implement a catch-all plugin, which is equivalent to a Unix command 
strings(1) (I have an implementation of that which I can contribute). 
And turn it off/on in the config, if it's off, then the unknown content 
is skipped and logged, if it's on - then make the best effort to extract 
text.

This is possible now by simply configuring a catch-all plugin to match 
the empty suffix and removing the empty suffix from other plugins.  So 
it seems the problem is not that this is currently impossible, but 
rather that it would be better to alter the configuration than the 
plugin definitions.

So we might have ParserFactory read a config file that maps content 
types and url suffixes to plugins.  Folks can edit this file instead of 
modifying the plugin declarations.  It can also define default handlers 
for unknown content types and unknown suffixes.  This could either 
augment or entirely replace the specifications in the plugins 
themselves.  Does this make sense?

Doug