FileResource (Apache Tika 2.9.2 API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

FSFileResource
```
public interface FileResource
```
This is a basic interface to handle a logical "file". This should enable code-agnostic handling of files from different sources: file system, database, etc.

Field Summary

Fields
Modifier and Type Field Description

static Property FILE_EXTENSION

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`Metadata`	`getMetadata()`	This gets the metadata available before the parsing of the file.
`String`	`getResourceId()`	This is only used in logging to identify which file may have caused problems.
`InputStream`	`openInputStream()`

- Field Detail
  - FILE_EXTENSION
```
static final Property FILE_EXTENSION
```
- Method Detail
  - getResourceId
```
String getResourceId()
```
    This is only used in logging to identify which file may have caused problems. While it is probably best to use unique ids for the sake of debugging, it is not necessary that the ids be unique. This id is never used as a hashkey by the batch processors, for example.
    
    Returns:
    
    an id for a FileResource
  - getMetadata
```
Metadata getMetadata()
```
    This gets the metadata available before the parsing of the file. This will typically be "external" metadata: file name, file size, file location, data stream, etc. That is, things that are known about the file from outside information, not file-internal metadata.
    
    Returns:
    
    Metadata
  - openInputStream
```
InputStream openInputStream()
                     throws IOException
```
    Returns:
    
    an InputStream for the FileResource
    
    Throws:
    
    IOException