Stopping a Tika server properly

Question

In order to start a Tika server that can be accessed from hosts other that localhost we know that the way to go is (say I have version 1.7 and want to run on port 9998)

java -jar tika-server-1.7-SNAPSHOT.jar -host 0.0.0.0

My question is: Is there a proper way to properly stop this server with a command or is killing the process the only way?

Metabolic

SIGTERM would be my first guess. Since this basically asks the process nicely to shut down if it wants to, I would consider that safe. – Plumbiferous

What's wrong with hitting control+c on the window where it's running? – Richthofen

@Gagravarr: Assume that you do not have access to that window (e.g. it is closed by another process / user). – Metabolic

Where do you try to run tika-server? on windows or linux? – Oscillograph

Linux machine ( Ubuntu 12 ) – Metabolic

Answer 1

As of October 2019 there is no programmatic way to shut it down. Documentation notes:

In the future, we may implement a gentler shutdown than we currently have.

Intersect

Answer 2

Apache tika 2.4.1 added stop() method to TikaServerCli so that it can be run with Apache Commons Daemon.

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1570

https://downloads.apache.org/tika/2.4.1/CHANGES-2.4.1.txt

Forgiving