I haven't looked at the Manakin code, but the MIME media-type of a Bitstream
must be coming from its associated BitstreamFormat -- so why not get
the human-readable name from the BitstreamFormat as well? There is no
need to establish a separate map of MIME-type to user-friendly name
when it already exists in teh BitstreamFormat registry.
String friendly = bitstream.getFormat().getShortDescription();
One complication, or perhaps advantage, of using BSFs directly is that
some of them have the same MIME-type, so getting the friendly name
from the BSF actually identifies the format more precisely -- e.g.
XML-based formats might all have the MIME-type "text/xml", but distinct
friendly names. Thus, you should go to the Bitstream's BSF to get the
friendly name rather than attempt to use the BSF registry as a map,
because it might have multiple matches for one MIME-type.
-- Larry
> On Nov 21, 2007 10:06 PM, Conal Tuohy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 16:43 -0600, Dorothea Salo wrote:
> > The mapping between media-types and friendly names could be introduced
> > into the pipeline using a Manakin Aspect, and then utilised in a View,
> > via XSLT.
>
> Aha. I can try to tackle this. What would be the closest existing code?
>
> > Alternatively, perhaps this is really just a case of i18n?
>
> I thought about that, but I can't quite make it work happily. Every
> time an administrator adds a new bitstream format (something I assume
> Manakin still has UI for?), DSpace itself would have to make an
> automatic change to messages.xml, which is under most circumstances a
> human-authored and source-controlled file. Automagically changing it
> will make a mess of any installation that keeps its source in source
> control, I would think.
>
> Dorothea
>
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