Re: Extensions to REST-API

On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 06:22:50PM +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Mar 2019, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote:
> 
> > Concerning index: I'm not very happy with the current state of affairs
> > of indexing binary files, as far as I understand the indexer currently
> > indexes everything.
> 
> The indexers disregard files that aren't text/plain.  This logic is 
> duplicated in each indexer.  (The back-ends call the indexers for all 
> files, whether or not they will be indexed, and make sure to use 
> errors='ignore' when decoding the files as UTF-8 for Python 3.  This logic 
> is duplicated in back_anydbm.py and rdbms_common.py, with at most small 
> differences, like quite a lot of back-end logic.)

Thanks for clarifying this, I feared that the content-type wasn't taken
into account. This is good news.

Ralf
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