[Springframework-developer] Re: Plans for mime type in Resource?

[Matt S. <sga...@us...>]

Sounds reasonable to me.  You should probably add an enhancement request 
to JIRA.

Matt

Andy Depue wrote:
> Well, actually, here is what I was thinking.  Say that I pull a resource from 
> a file or classpath (file: or classpath: or even just a relative path).  
> Then, sure, just figure out the mime type based on file extension when I call 
> "getMimeType" (or whatever) against the Resource.  That at least saves me the 
> trouble of parsing the filename or calling into the activation framework.  
> BUT, if I pass in a URL to a resource where the mime type is handled 
> independently of the filename (such as a "http:" URL, where the server will 
> return a type header), then return the specific mime type that was returned 
> by the server.  See URL.openConnection().getContentType().  A simple 
> algorithm could be:
> 
> getMimeType() {
>   return URL.openConnection().getContentType() if not null,
>   otherwise parse filename/use activation framework.
> }
> 
>   - Andy
> 
> On Friday 04 March 2005 07:01 am, Matt Sgarlata wrote:
> 
>>OK, I see what you're getting at now.  The problem is, how do you want
>>Spring to figure out the mime type if it's not based on file extension?
>>  By dynamically inspecting the contents of the file at runtime?  I know
>>that's possible because IE does it, but that seems like it would be a
>>pain to implement.  Is there some other approach you could take, like
>>storing the mime type information external to the file itself?
>>
>>Matt
> 
> 
> 
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