"archives" parameter is set to false and cannot be changed

[mikaelmechoulam]

In DroidDetector the archives parameter is set to false and there is no setter. What I understand is that it means that ZIP or TAR files won't be validated. Is there a reason for this lack of setter ?

[anjackson]

Ah, oops. That's just us hardcoding our primary use case. Perfectly fine to make this gettable/settable, but it might be a little while before I get chance to change it as we're swamped right now.

[anjackson]

Hm, looking back over this, and it's a bit more complicated than that. I've set up Droid as a Apache Tika 'detector' module, and the API is build with the expectation that the rest of the application handles descending into archives. i.e. what we need is a variant to Tika that is configured to use the DroidDetector for (or as part of) format identification. Tika could then descend into archive files and identify the contents.