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Re: setting the content-type in metadata before parsing

Mattmann, Chris A (388J)
Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:12:56 -0800

Hi Daniel,

I think you're looking for:

Metadata met = new Metadata();
met.set(Metadata.CONTENT_TYPE, "application/pdf");

HTH!

Cheers,
Chris



On 12/2/09 12:52 PM, "Daniel Knapp" <daniel.kn...@mni.fh-giessen.de> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> i want to set the content-type of a file before i parse it. I've seen on the
> Tika Website that this is possible and an advantage during the parsing
> process.
> What is the right name and value of this attribute (expect for pdf =
> application/pdf ?)? Is the following method right?
> 
> metadata.set("attribute-name", "value");
> 
> Hope i'm clear.
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel


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