I just tried out the solution. It works perfectly. Thanks,George
> Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 16:17:49 +0100 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Update mimetypes.xml without recompiling tika > > On Tue, 2 Jul 2013, George Wen wrote: > > I am trying to use tika detectors to detect file mime types in my > > project. Since I need to handle some rare mime types, the abilities and > > easiness to add custom mime types are important to me. Is it possible to > > let tika use an external tika-mimetypes.xml so that I don't need to > > recompile tika-app.jar every time a mime type is added? > > Can you not just make use of a custom-mimetypes.xml file? See > http://tika.apache.org/1.0/parser_guide.html#Add_your_MIME-Type > > To run with it, you'd need to something like > java -classpath /path/to/root/of/custom/mimetypes:/path/to/tika-app.jar > org.apache.tika.cli.TikaCLI --list-supported-types > > When that shows your custom mimetypes, you're good to go! > > Nick
