Apologies for bumping such an old thread, but is there an official list somewhere of those filetypes that require the temporary file being created?
Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: Nick Burch [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 4:23 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Parse file without creating tmp file On Tue, 11 Jul 2017, aravinth thangasami wrote: > Recently I have noticed tika creates a tmp file in before parsing the > stream. Only for certain formats, generally where the underlying parsing library requires a file for random-access > I don't have much experience in Tika but I feel it is an overhead. > Can we achieve file parsing without writing to tmp file? For some files, no, not without re-writing other open source libraries For most, it isn't needed and Tika won't do it Nick
