org.apache.tika.parser
Class ParserDecorator

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.tika.parser.ParserDecorator

All Implemented Interfaces:

Parser

Direct Known Subclasses:

ParserPostProcessor

public class ParserDecorator
extends java.lang.Object
implements Parser

Decorator base class for the Parser interface. This class simply delegates all parsing calls to an underlying decorated parser instance. Subclasses can provide extra decoration by overriding the parse method.

Constructor Summary

ParserDecorator(Parser parser)
Creates a decorator for the given parser.

Method Summary

void	parse(java.io.InputStream stream, org.xml.sax.ContentHandler handler, Metadata metadata) Delegates the method call to the decorated parser.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ParserDecorator

public ParserDecorator(Parser parser)

Creates a decorator for the given parser.

Parameters:

parser - the parser instance to be decorated

Method Detail

parse

public void parse(java.io.InputStream stream,
                  org.xml.sax.ContentHandler handler,
                  Metadata metadata)
           throws java.io.IOException,
                  org.xml.sax.SAXException,
                  TikaException

Delegates the method call to the decorated parser. Subclasses should override this method (and use super.parse() to invoke the decorated parser) to implement extra decoration.

Specified by:

parse in interface Parser

Parameters:

stream - the document stream (input)

handler - handler for the XHTML SAX events (output)

metadata - document metadata (input and output)

Throws:

java.io.IOException - if the document stream could not be read

org.xml.sax.SAXException - if the SAX events could not be processed

TikaException - if the document could not be parsed