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

    • 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