private String[] _getValues(final String name) {
        String[] values = metadata.get(name);
        if (values == null) {
            values = new String[0];
        }
        return values;
    }
Get the values associated to a metadata name.

@param name of the metadata.
@return the values associated to a metadata name.
tika-core/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/metadata/Metadata.java