Hi Ryan, I think #1 has been suggested before, in a thread called "Appending MIME Types": http://s.apache.org/TVe
As for #2, I think that's the type of information we're trying to hide through the class interface. I like the adding more URL information and URI stuff to the MIME registry though too. Cheers, Chris On Oct 29, 2012, at 11:44 AM, Ryan McKinley wrote: > Hello- > > I'm in the process of ditching a custom format registry and trying to > replace it with tika MimeTypes. For the most part things are going > pretty well. > > The key things I am stuck with: > 1. As is, MimeTypes#forName(String name) will get or create the > MimeType. There is no way to ask if the MimeTypes registry already > knows about the type. > > 2. No way to show magic or rootXML in my UI since they are private, > final and don't have getters: > private List<Magic> magics = null; > private List<RootXML> rootXML = null; > > What is the general philosophy in Tika on this? Should I submit a > patch adding (read only) getters for these things? a patch removing > final and or making the variables protected so a subclass can do what > works in my case? > > In a similar question, is there interest in adding other metadata to > the core MimeType class, like URLs to documentation, or the UTI > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Type_Identifier), or a friendly > display name? > > thanks > ryan
