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+<?php
+
+namespace MummertMedia\ContaoMeilisearchBundle\Command;
+
+use Contao\CoreBundle\Framework\ContaoFramework;
+use Contao\Database;
+use Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command;
+use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputInterface;
+use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputOption;
+use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\OutputInterface;
+use Symfony\Component\HttpClient\HttpClient;
+
+class MeilisearchFilesParseCommand extends Command
+{
+    public function __construct(
+        private readonly ContaoFramework $framework,
+    ) {
+        parent::__construct();
+    }
+
+    protected function configure(): void
+    {
+        $this
+            ->setName('meilisearch:files:parse')
+            ->setDescription('Parse indexed files via Apache Tika and store extracted text')
+            ->addOption(
+                'limit',
+                null,
+                InputOption::VALUE_OPTIONAL,
+                'Maximum number of files to parse per run',
+                20
+            )
+            ->addOption(
+                'dry-run',
+                null,
+                InputOption::VALUE_NONE,
+                'Do not send files to Tika, just show what would be parsed'
+            );
+    }
+
+    protected function execute(InputInterface $input, OutputInterface $output): int
+    {
+        $this->framework->initialize();
+
+        $this->log('Parser gestartet');
+
+        $limit  = max(1, (int) $input->getOption('limit'));
+        $dryRun = (bool) $input->getOption('dry-run');
+
+        $tikaUrl = rtrim((string) $GLOBALS['TL_CONFIG']['meilisearch_tika_url'], '/');
+        if ($tikaUrl === '') {
+            $output->writeln('<error>Tika URL not configured</error>');
+            return Command::FAILURE;
+        }
+
+        $db = Database::getInstance();
+
+        $files = $db
+            ->prepare(
+                "SELECT * FROM tl_search_files
+                 ORDER BY tstamp ASC
+                 LIMIT ?"
+            )
+            ->execute($limit)
+            ->fetchAllAssoc();
+
+        if (!$files) {
+            $this->log('No files to parse');
+            return Command::SUCCESS;
+        }
+
+        $client = HttpClient::create([
+            'timeout' => 120,
+        ]);
+
+        foreach ($files as $file) {
+
+            $absolutePath = TL_ROOT . '/' . ltrim($file['url'], '/');
+            if (!is_file($absolutePath)) {
+                $this->log('File missing, skip', ['url' => $file['url']]);
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            $mtime    = filemtime($absolutePath) ?: 0;
+            $checksum = md5($file['url'] . '|' . $mtime);
+
+            if ($file['checksum'] === $checksum && !empty($file['text'])) {
+                $this->log('Skip unchanged file', ['url' => $file['url']]);
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            if ($dryRun) {
+                $output->writeln('[DRY-RUN] Would parse: ' . $file['url']);
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            try {
+                $this->log('Parsing file', ['url' => $file['url']]);
+
+                $response = $client->request(
+                    'PUT',
+                    $tikaUrl . '/tika',
+                    [
+                        'headers' => [
+                            'Accept' => 'text/plain',
+                        ],
+                        'body' => fopen($absolutePath, 'rb'),
+                    ]
+                );
+
+                $text = trim((string) $response->getContent(false));
+
+                $db->prepare(
+                    "UPDATE tl_search_files
+                     SET text = ?, checksum = ?, file_mtime = ?, tstamp = ?
+                     WHERE id = ?"
+                )->execute(
+                    $text,
+                    $checksum,
+                    $mtime,
+                    time(),
+                    $file['id']
+                );
+
+                $this->log('File parsed', [
+                    'url'      => $file['url'],
+                    'chars'    => strlen($text),
+                ]);
+
+            } catch (\Throwable $e) {
+                $this->log('Parse failed', [
+                    'url'   => $file['url'],
+                    'error' => $e->getMessage(),
+                ]);
+            }
+        }
+
+        $this->log('Parser finished');
+        return Command::SUCCESS;
+    }
+
+    private function log(string $message, array $context = []): void
+    {
+        $ctx = $context
+            ? ' | ' . json_encode($context, JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES | JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE)
+            : '';
+
+        error_log('[MeilisearchFilesParse] ' . $message . $ctx);
+    }
+}
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