LanguageHandler (Apache Tika 2.8.0 API)

java.lang.Object
- org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler
- - org.apache.tika.sax.ContentHandlerDecorator
  - - org.apache.tika.sax.WriteOutContentHandler
    - - org.apache.tika.language.detect.LanguageHandler

All Implemented Interfaces:

ContentHandler, DTDHandler, EntityResolver, ErrorHandler
```
public class LanguageHandler
extends WriteOutContentHandler
```
SAX content handler that updates a language detector based on all the received character content.

Since:

Apache Tika 0.10

Constructor Summary

Constructors
Constructor Description

LanguageHandler()

LanguageHandler(LanguageDetector detector)

LanguageHandler(LanguageWriter writer)

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Concrete Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`LanguageDetector`	`getDetector()`	Returns the language detector used by this content handler.
`LanguageResult`	`getLanguage()`	Returns the detected language based on text handled thus far.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.tika.sax.WriteOutContentHandler
characters, ignorableWhitespace

Methods inherited from class org.apache.tika.sax.ContentHandlerDecorator
endDocument, endElement, endPrefixMapping, handleException, processingInstruction, setContentHandler, setDocumentLocator, skippedEntity, startDocument, startElement, startPrefixMapping, toString

Methods inherited from class org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler
error, fatalError, notationDecl, resolveEntity, unparsedEntityDecl, warning

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

- Constructor Detail
  - LanguageHandler
```
public LanguageHandler()
                throws IOException
```
    Throws:
    
    IOException
  - LanguageHandler
```
public LanguageHandler(LanguageWriter writer)
```
  - LanguageHandler
```
public LanguageHandler(LanguageDetector detector)
```
- Method Detail
  - getDetector
```
public LanguageDetector getDetector()
```
    Returns the language detector used by this content handler. Note that the returned detector gets updated whenever new SAX events are received by this content handler.
    
    Returns:
    
    language detector
  - getLanguage
```
public LanguageResult getLanguage()
```
    Returns the detected language based on text handled thus far.
    
    Returns:
    
    LanguageResult