DocumentSelector (Apache Tika 3.2.0 API)

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

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	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