Christian Lenz created NETBEANS-5087:
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             Summary: Add functionality to change mimetype of an open file
                 Key: NETBEANS-5087
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-5087
             Project: NetBeans
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: ide - Code
            Reporter: Christian Lenz


It is quite common to see it in other IDEs to change the MimeType from a file 
which is open. For example creating a txt file as a temp file to discuss APIs.

That means you have not only JSON or XML but also comments and stuff which is 
not supported in that file and make errors.

But that doesn't matter, the created txt file is just a collection of all 
information.

So it must be possible to change the mimetype of a file which is currently open 
to change the content/text to text/json. This is not possible in NetBeans. It 
is just possible to change the mimetype for a whole filetype and that means 
global. But this is not the case here.

I created a plugin where I can read out the mimetype of a file and shows it in 
the statusbar. I wanted to change the mimetype, but the mimeType file property 
is just read only or is only changable when the file was created in memory whie 
the MemoryFileSystem.

I had a look into the code, at the end, NetBeans just take the extension and 
looks into the mapping where it was mapped against. So we need a functionality 
where we can change the mimetype temporarily.



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