org.apache.tika.extractor

Interface DocumentSelector

All Known Implementing Classes:

FSDocumentSelector

public interface DocumentSelector

Interface for different document selection strategies for purposes like embedded document extraction by a ContainerExtractor instance. An implementation of this interface defines some specific selection criteria to be applied against the document metadata passed to the select(Metadata) method.

Since:

Apache Tika 0.8

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	select(Metadata metadata) Checks if a document with the given metadata matches the specified selection criteria.

Method Detail

select

boolean select(Metadata metadata)

Checks if a document with the given metadata matches the specified selection criteria.

Parameters:

metadata - document metadata

Returns:

true if the document matches the selection criteria, false otherwise