Package org.apache.tika.language.detect

Class LanguageHandler

java.lang.Object

org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler

org.apache.tika.sax.ContentHandlerDecorator

org.apache.tika.sax.WriteOutContentHandler

org.apache.tika.language.detect.LanguageHandler

All Implemented Interfaces:

ContentHandler, DTDHandler, EntityResolver, ErrorHandler

@Deprecated(since="2026-04-30")
public class LanguageHandler
extends WriteOutContentHandler

Deprecated.

This version of the Apache Tika library is deprecated. Use your own version of Apache Tika.

SAX content handler that updates a language detector based on all the received character content.

Since:

Apache Tika 0.10

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
LanguageHandler()	Deprecated.
LanguageHandler(LanguageDetector detector)	Deprecated.
LanguageHandler(LanguageWriter writer)	Deprecated.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
LanguageDetector	getDetector()	Deprecated. Returns the language detector used by this content handler.
LanguageResult	getLanguage()	Deprecated. Returns the detected language based on text handled thus far.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.tika.sax.WriteOutContentHandler

characters, ignorableWhitespace, isWriteLimitReached

Methods inherited from class org.apache.tika.sax.ContentHandlerDecorator

endDocument, endElement, endPrefixMapping, processingInstruction, setDocumentLocator, skippedEntity, startDocument, startElement, startPrefixMapping, toString

Methods inherited from class org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler

error, fatalError, notationDecl, resolveEntity, unparsedEntityDecl, warning

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface org.xml.sax.ContentHandler

declaration

Constructor Details

LanguageHandler

public LanguageHandler()
                throws IOException

Deprecated.

Throws:

IOException

LanguageHandler

public LanguageHandler(LanguageWriter writer)

Deprecated.

LanguageHandler

public LanguageHandler(LanguageDetector detector)

Deprecated.

Method Details

getDetector

public LanguageDetector getDetector()

Deprecated.

Returns the language detector used by this content handler. Note that the returned detector gets updated whenever new SAX events are received by this content handler.

Returns:

language detector

getLanguage

public LanguageResult getLanguage()

Deprecated.

Returns the detected language based on text handled thus far.

Returns:

LanguageResult