mimetyperesolver.java

MG4J (Managing Gigabytes for Java) is a free full-text search engine for large document collections

package it.unimi.dsi.mg4j.util;

/*		 
 * MG4J: Managing Gigabytes for Java
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Sebastiano Vigna 
 *
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import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

import javax.activation.MimetypesFileTypeMap;

/** A thin wrapper around a singleton instance of {@link javax.activation.MimetypesFileTypeMap}
 * that tries to load <samp>/etc/mime.types</samp> into the map.
 */

public class MimeTypeResolver {
	/** A MIME type file map, stuffed with some basic types. */
	private final static String UNIX_MIME_TYPES_FILENAME = "/etc/mime.types";

	private final static MimetypesFileTypeMap MIME_TYPES_FILE_TYPE_MAP;

	private MimeTypeResolver() {}
	
	static {
		try {
			MIME_TYPES_FILE_TYPE_MAP = ( new File( UNIX_MIME_TYPES_FILENAME ) ).exists() 
			? new MimetypesFileTypeMap( UNIX_MIME_TYPES_FILENAME )
			: new MimetypesFileTypeMap();
		}
		catch ( IOException e ) {
			throw new RuntimeException( e );
		}
	}
	
	public static String getContentType( final File file ) {
		return MIME_TYPES_FILE_TYPE_MAP.getContentType( file );
	}

	public static String getContentType( final CharSequence name ) {
		return MIME_TYPES_FILE_TYPE_MAP.getContentType( name.toString() );
	}
}