Package com.logicaldoc.core.parser

Class DOCParser

java.lang.Object

com.logicaldoc.core.parser.AbstractParser

com.logicaldoc.core.parser.RTFParser

com.logicaldoc.core.parser.DOCParser

All Implemented Interfaces:

Parser

public class DOCParser
extends RTFParser

Parses a MS Word (*.doc, *.dot) file to extract the text contained in the file. This class uses the external library HWPF provided by the Apache Jakarta POI project. Even though this library provides features to extract the document author and version, we do not use those features, because the library is known to be buggy. The important part is to get the text content, not extracting the author, date, etc. is not essential.

Since:

3.5

Author:

Michael Scholz, Sebastian Stein, Alessandro Gasparini - LogicalDOC

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
DOCParser()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
String	parse(InputStream input, String filename, String encoding, Locale locale, String tenant)	* Extracts content for the text content of the given binary document.

Methods inherited from class com.logicaldoc.core.parser.RTFParser

internalParse

Methods inherited from class com.logicaldoc.core.parser.AbstractParser

parse

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

DOCParser

public DOCParser()

Method Detail

parse

public String parse(InputStream input,
                    String filename,
                    String encoding,
                    Locale locale,
                    String tenant)

Description copied from interface: Parser

* Extracts content for the text content of the given binary document. The content type and character encoding (if available and applicable) are given as arguments.

The implementation can choose either to read and parse the given document immediately or to return a reader that does it incrementally. The only constraint is that the implementation must close the given stream latest when the returned reader is closed. The caller on the other hand is responsible for closing the returned reader.

The implementation should only throw an exception on transient errors, i.e. when it can expect to be able to successfully extract the text content of the same binary at another time. An effort should be made to recover from syntax errors and other similar problems.

This method should be thread-safe, i.e. it is possible that this method is invoked simultaneously by different threads to extract the text content of different documents. On the other hand the returned reader does not need to be thread-safe.

The parsing has to be completed before the seconds specified in the parser.timeout config. property.

Specified by:

parse in interface Parser

Overrides:

parse in class AbstractParser

Parameters:

input - binary content from which to extract the text

filename - name of the file

encoding - character encoding

locale - the locale

tenant - name of the tenant

Returns:

the extracted text