[TYPO3-Solr] Metadata from file or FAL DB?

[Dennis Luemkemann]

Dear all,

I’m trying to better understand how typo3solr / solrfal works with regard to metadata indexing.

Let’s assume I have a PDF file, which has no metadata defined. Then an editor adds the file to FAL and writes some metadata information in the FAL backend. For Typo3, the metadata is now available, even though it’s not contained within the file itself. So far so good.

Now comes solrfal with tika to add the file to solr. Where does it look for metadata, in the file itself or in the FAL record for the file?
If it looks in both, which has precedence over the other and gets sent to solr?

Thanks
Dennis