org.apache.tika.mime
Class MediaTypeRegistry

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.tika.mime.MediaTypeRegistry

public class MediaTypeRegistry
extends java.lang.Object

Registry of known Internet media types.

Constructor Summary

MediaTypeRegistry()

Method Summary

void	addAlias(MediaType type, MediaType alias)
void	addSuperType(MediaType type, MediaType supertype)
void	addType(MediaType type)
java.util.SortedSet<MediaType>	getAliases(MediaType type) Returns the set of known aliases of the given canonical media type.
static MediaTypeRegistry	getDefaultRegistry() Returns the built-in media type registry included in Tika.
MediaType	getSupertype(MediaType type) Returns the supertype of the given type.
java.util.SortedSet<MediaType>	getTypes() Returns the set of all known canonical media types.
boolean	isSpecializationOf(MediaType a, MediaType b) Checks whether the given media type a is a specialization of a more generic type b.
MediaType	normalize(MediaType type)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

MediaTypeRegistry

public MediaTypeRegistry()

Method Detail

getDefaultRegistry

public static MediaTypeRegistry getDefaultRegistry()

Returns the built-in media type registry included in Tika.

Returns:

default media type registry

Since:

Apache Tika 0.8

getTypes

public java.util.SortedSet<MediaType> getTypes()

Returns the set of all known canonical media types. Type aliases are not included in the returned set.

Returns:

canonical media types

Since:

Apache Tika 0.8

getAliases

public java.util.SortedSet<MediaType> getAliases(MediaType type)

Returns the set of known aliases of the given canonical media type.

Parameters:

type - canonical media type

Returns:

known aliases

Since:

Apache Tika 0.8

addType

public void addType(MediaType type)

addAlias

public void addAlias(MediaType type,
                     MediaType alias)

addSuperType

public void addSuperType(MediaType type,
                         MediaType supertype)

normalize

public MediaType normalize(MediaType type)

isSpecializationOf

public boolean isSpecializationOf(MediaType a,
                                  MediaType b)

Checks whether the given media type a is a specialization of a more generic type b.

Parameters:

a - media type

b - suspected supertype

Returns:

true if b is a supertype of a, false otherwise

Since:

Apache Tika 0.8

getSupertype

public MediaType getSupertype(MediaType type)

Returns the supertype of the given type. If the given type has any parameters, then the respective base type is returned. Otherwise built-in heuristics like text/... -> text/plain and .../...+xml -> application/xml are used in addition to explicit type inheritance rules read from the media type database. Finally application/octet-stream is returned for all types for which no other supertype is known, and the return value for application/octet-stream is null.

Parameters:

type - media type

Returns:

supertype, or null for application/octet-stream

Since:

Apache Tika 0.8