CompositeExternalParser.java

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package org.apache.tika.parser.external;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.tika.exception.TikaException;
import org.apache.tika.mime.MediaTypeRegistry;
import org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser;
import org.apache.tika.parser.Parser;

/**
 * A Composite Parser that wraps up all the available External Parsers,
 * and provides an easy way to access them.
 * Parser that uses an external program (like catdoc or pdf2txt) to extract
 * text content and metadata from a given document.
 */
public class CompositeExternalParser extends CompositeParser {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 6962436916649024024L;

    public CompositeExternalParser() throws IOException, TikaException {
        this(new MediaTypeRegistry());
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public CompositeExternalParser(MediaTypeRegistry registry) throws IOException, TikaException {
        super(registry, (List<Parser>) (List<? extends Parser>) ExternalParsersFactory.create());
    }
}