Hi Nick,
On 3/27/2016 6:52 PM, Nick Burch wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Mar 2016, Bob Paulin wrote:
>> Currently the Apache POI dependency is in several modules and it's
>> sort of a beast (> 2 MB in size).
>
> You should've seen it before Jukka and Yegor spent a crazy ApacheCon
> hacking up the ooxml-lite support... ;-)
I can only imagine.
>
>> It appears many of the modules are only using the IOUtils library.
>
> I suspect a strong overlap with the parser classes I've helped write...
>
>> Any concerns with replacing this POI stuff with commons-io? Does POI
>> offer anything above the commons-io functionality in IOUtils? If not
>> I think it would be great to isolate the poi dependency to the office
>> module only.
>
> A lot of the use is for endian-specific reading of numbers and
> strings. Might be a bit of stream stuff, but mostly that can be passed
> off to the Tika IO utils classes.
Didn't even think of looking at Tika IO but yes that would be even better.
>
>> From a quick check, I can't see any endian number stuff in commons
>> IO, but
> I might of missed it, or it might be in a different commons module. If
> not, there might be something to be said for popping that POI logic
> along with some of the Ogg-Vorbis utils stuff (another one with my
> grubby mits all over it) into a more helpful general utils grouping
Yes I think overall if these functions can live in somewhere either
inside tika or a smaller dependent library we're in a better place. I'll
take a look at Ogg-Vorbis.
Thanks!
>
> Nick
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