org.apache.tika.mime
Class MimeTypes

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

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, Detector

public final class MimeTypes
extends Object
implements Detector, Serializable

This class is a MimeType repository. It gathers a set of MimeTypes and enables to retrieves a content-type from its name, from a file name, or from a magic character sequence.

The MIME type detection methods that take an InputStream as an argument will never reads more than getMinLength() bytes from the stream. Also the given stream is never closed, marked, or reset by the methods. Thus a client can use the mark feature of the stream (if available) to restore the stream back to the state it was before type detection if it wants to process the stream based on the detected type.

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Serialized Form

Field Summary

static String	OCTET_STREAM Name of the root type, application/octet-stream.
static String	PLAIN_TEXT Name of the text type, text/plain.
static String	XML Name of the xml type, application/xml.

Constructor Summary

MimeTypes()

Method Summary

void	addPattern(MimeType type, String pattern) Adds a file name pattern for the given media type.
void	addPattern(MimeType type, String pattern, boolean isRegex) Adds a file name pattern for the given media type.
MediaType	detect(InputStream input, Metadata metadata) Automatically detects the MIME type of a document based on magic markers in the stream prefix and any given metadata hints.
MimeType	forName(String name) Returns the registered media type with the given name (or alias).
static MimeTypes	getDefaultMimeTypes() Get the default MimeTypes.
MediaTypeRegistry	getMediaTypeRegistry()
MimeType	getMimeType(File file) Deprecated. Use Tika.detect(File) instead
MimeType	getMimeType(String name) Deprecated. Use Tika.detect(String) instead
int	getMinLength() Return the minimum length of data to provide to analyzing methods based on the document's content in order to check all the known MimeTypes.
void	setSuperType(MimeType type, MediaType parent)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

OCTET_STREAM

public static final String OCTET_STREAM

Name of the root type, application/octet-stream.

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Constant Field Values

PLAIN_TEXT

public static final String PLAIN_TEXT

Name of the text type, text/plain.

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Constant Field Values

XML

public static final String XML

Name of the xml type, application/xml.

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Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

MimeTypes

public MimeTypes()

Method Detail

getMimeType

public MimeType getMimeType(String name)

Deprecated. Use Tika.detect(String) instead

Find the Mime Content Type of a document from its name. Returns application/octet-stream if no better match is found.

Parameters:

name - of the document to analyze.

Returns:

the Mime Content Type of the specified document name

getMimeType

public MimeType getMimeType(File file)
                     throws MimeTypeException,
                            IOException

Deprecated. Use Tika.detect(File) instead

Find the Mime Content Type of a document stored in the given file. Returns application/octet-stream if no better match is found.

Parameters:

file - file to analyze

Returns:

the Mime Content Type of the specified document

Throws:

MimeTypeException - if the type can't be detected

IOException - if the file can't be read

forName

public MimeType forName(String name)
                 throws MimeTypeException

Returns the registered media type with the given name (or alias). The named media type is automatically registered (and returned) if it doesn't already exist.

Parameters:

name - media type name (case-insensitive)

Returns:

the registered media type with the given name or alias

Throws:

MimeTypeException - if the given media type name is invalid

setSuperType

public void setSuperType(MimeType type,
                         MediaType parent)

addPattern

public void addPattern(MimeType type,
                       String pattern)
                throws MimeTypeException

Adds a file name pattern for the given media type. Assumes that the pattern being added is not a JDK standard regular expression.

Parameters:

type - media type

pattern - file name pattern

Throws:

MimeTypeException - if the pattern conflicts with existing ones

addPattern

public void addPattern(MimeType type,
                       String pattern,
                       boolean isRegex)
                throws MimeTypeException

Adds a file name pattern for the given media type. The caller can specify whether the pattern being added is or is not a JDK standard regular expression via the isRegex parameter. If the value is set to true, then a JDK standard regex is assumed, otherwise the freedesktop glob type is assumed.

Parameters:

type - media type

pattern - file name pattern

isRegex - set to true if JDK std regexs are desired, otherwise set to false.

Throws:

MimeTypeException - if the pattern conflicts with existing ones.

getMediaTypeRegistry

public MediaTypeRegistry getMediaTypeRegistry()

getMinLength

public int getMinLength()

Return the minimum length of data to provide to analyzing methods based on the document's content in order to check all the known MimeTypes.

Returns:

the minimum length of data to provide.

See Also:

getMimeType(byte[]), #getMimeType(String, byte[])

detect

public MediaType detect(InputStream input,
                        Metadata metadata)
                 throws IOException

Automatically detects the MIME type of a document based on magic markers in the stream prefix and any given metadata hints.

The given stream is expected to support marks, so that this method can reset the stream to the position it was in before this method was called.

Specified by:

detect in interface Detector

Parameters:

input - document stream, or null

metadata - metadata hints

Returns:

MIME type of the document

Throws:

IOException - if the document stream could not be read

getDefaultMimeTypes

public static MimeTypes getDefaultMimeTypes()

Get the default MimeTypes. This includes all the build in mimetypes, and any custom override ones present.

Returns:

MimeTypes

Throws:

MimeTypeException

IOException