Extract method comes with no specified headers

[TonyEight]

I may be getting silly or maybe I just can't understand the implementation, but it seems like the extract method is not implemented in a way to give proper parameters to _send_request.

There are no given headers. With the current _send_request implementation, when no headers are provided, it uses application/xml instead :

if not 'content-type' in [key.lower() for key in headers.keys()]:
    headers['Content-type'] = 'application/xml; charset=UTF-8'

Using pysolr with django-haystack, I was unable to correctly implement the extract_contents_file method from SolrBackend due to this fact. Every submitted files were considered as XML instead of the ContentType found by Tika, resulting in a continuous ParseError...

Commentting the given part of code solves my case, but I'm sure there may be another better option.

Do you have any clue ?

[tongwang]

Having the same issue here. extract is broken.

[acdha]

This apparently changed at some point in Solr's release cycle. I'd want to test to confirm that it works as far back as we support but otherwise my first question is whether this works if you use a generic mime type like application/octet-stream which would allow us to avoid any chance of affecting other requests by having extract set that header for its requests.

[tongwang]

application/octet-stream won't work. Seems like the only way to make it work is to not setting Content-type at all, letting requests to set it to the correct multipart/form-data with boundary.

[stale]

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.