Class MimeType

    • Method Detail

      • isValid

        public static boolean isValid​(String name)
        Checks that the given string is a valid Internet media type name based on rules from RFC 2054 section 5.3. For validation purposes the rules can be simplified to the following:
         name := token "/" token
         token := 1*<any (US-ASCII) CHAR except SPACE, CTLs, or tspecials>
         tspecials :=  "(" / ")" / "<" / ">" / "@" / "," / ";" / ":" /
                       "\" / <"> / "/" / "[" / "]" / "?" / "="
         
        Parameters:
        name - name string
        Returns:
        true if the string is a valid media type name, false otherwise
      • getType

        public MediaType getType()
        Returns the normalized media type name.
        Returns:
        media type
      • getName

        public String getName()
        Returns the name of this media type.
        Returns:
        media type name (lower case)
      • getDescription

        public String getDescription()
        Returns the description of this media type.
        Returns:
        media type description
      • setDescription

        public void setDescription​(String description)
        Set the description of this media type.
        Parameters:
        description - media type description
      • getAcronym

        public String getAcronym()
        Returns an acronym for this mime type.
        Returns:
        mime type acronym
      • getLinks

        public List<URI> getLinks()
        Get a list of links to help document this mime type
        Returns:
        an array of links (will never be null)
      • hasMagic

        public boolean hasMagic()
      • matchesMagic

        public boolean matchesMagic​(byte[] data)
      • matches

        public boolean matches​(byte[] data)
      • hashCode

        public int hashCode()
        Overrides:
        hashCode in class Object
      • toString

        public String toString()
        Returns the name of this media type.
        Overrides:
        toString in class Object
        Returns:
        media type name
      • getExtension

        public String getExtension()
        Returns the preferred file extension of this type, or an empty string if no extensions are known. Use the getExtensions() method to get the full list of known extensions of this type.
        Returns:
        preferred file extension or empty string
        Since:
        Apache Tika 0.9
      • getExtensions

        public List<String> getExtensions()
        Returns the list of all known file extensions of this media type.
        Returns:
        known extensions in order of preference (best first)
        Since:
        Apache Tika 0.10