Hi, Thanks for Apache Tika! Its a great project.
I'm trying to add a custom mime type. I've seen solutions that involve writing a custom-mimetypes.xml file, but I'd really prefer to add my custom type programmatically. Mostly this is because the magic bytes for the file format are already defined elsewhere in code (which I'd prefer not to duplicate), and I also want to leave the possibility open for user-defined mime types at runtime. I'm running 1.7 and doing detection like this: TikaConfig config = TikaConfig.getDefaultConfig(); Detector detector = config.getDetector(); TikaInputStream stream = TikaInputStream.get(in); Metadata metadata = new Metadata(); MediaType mediatype = detector.detect(stream, metadata); System.out.println(mediatype.toString()); And this works great for my needs. Instead of getting the Detector through the TikaConfig, I've tried instantiating a new MagicDetector with the desired byte pattern and MediaType, grabbing a DefaultDetector, and adding my new MagicDetector to the DefaultDetector's getDetectors() List, and then performing detection. Unfortunately this doesn't appear to make any difference. Is there another way to add the custom mime type via a programmatic interface? silverchange
