Package org.apache.tika.language.detect

Class LanguageHandler

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

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, error, fatalError, handleException, processingInstruction, setContentHandler, setDocumentLocator, skippedEntity, startDocument, startElement, startPrefixMapping, toString, warning

Methods inherited from class org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler

notationDecl, resolveEntity, unparsedEntityDecl

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

LanguageHandler

public LanguageHandler()
                throws IOException

Throws:

IOException

LanguageHandler

public LanguageHandler(LanguageWriter writer)

LanguageHandler

public LanguageHandler(LanguageDetector detector)

Method Details

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