JHOVE reports misleading information for module-incompatible formats

[david-russo]

Dev Effort

0.5D

Description

When a specific module is chosen for validation, the format and the MIME type that the module was expecting is reported as part of the file's representation information, irrespective of the file's actual format.

Command: jhove -m wave-hul out.txt

Jhove (Rel. 1.16.5, 2017-03-20)
 Date: 2017-03-21 11:00:50 GMT
 RepresentationInformation: out.txt
  ReportingModule: WAVE-hul, Rel. 1.4 (2017-03-14)
  LastModified: 2017-03-21 10:53:12 GMT
  Size: 19393
  Format: WAVE
  Status: Not well-formed
  ErrorMessage: Document does not start with RIFF chunk
   Offset: 0
  MIMEtype: audio/x-wave

Command: jhove -m pdf-hul out.txt

Jhove (Rel. 1.16.5, 2017-03-20)
 Date: 2017-03-21 10:54:07 GMT
 RepresentationInformation: out.txt
  ReportingModule: PDF-hul, Rel. 1.8 (2017-03-14)
  LastModified: 2017-03-21 10:53:12 GMT
  Size: 19393
  Format: PDF
  Status: Not well-formed
  ErrorMessage: No PDF header
   Offset: 0
  MIMEtype: application/pdf

[MartinSpeller]

JHOVE reports misleading information for module-incompatible formats #203 - Assigned to TBA