[hibernate-dev] [HSEARCH] Question on TikaBridge

[Hardy Ferentschik]

On 2 Jan 2014, at 18:30, Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org> wrote:

> Hardy,
> 
> Today the actual bridge fails during set() if the object passed is not of a specified subset of types (Blob, etc).

Right, that happens in TikaBridge#getInputStreamForData

> This means the failure happens at the first indexing usage.

Correct

> Is that ok / preferable if I do these type checking at the bridge creation time - in the BridgeProvider.

Not sure. AS you say, the problem is if you define the type as Object. Probably quite uncommon. 

> It seems like a small flexibility loss and we would gain clearer error messages: if something is annotated @TikaBridge and we don’t support the type we will fail fast.

Fail fast sounds good.

—Hardy