HI, > On 12 Nov 2018, at 16:35, Christian Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I would like to override a file extension already registered in the > tika-mimetypes.xml file. > > I know that the custom-mimetypes.xml file allows to register new custom > mimetypes and it works well for new file extenstions (glob pattern) that do > not already exist in tika-mimetypes.xml. > > Lets take the following entry in tika-mimetypes.xml: > > <mime-type type="application/x-dtbresource+xml"> > <glob pattern="*.res"/> > </mime-type> > > What should I do to override the existing mime-type value to return > "application/my-specific-resource" instead of "application/x-dtbresource+xml" > ? >
We would not normally recommend overriding existing mime-types but if you have to do it you can copy tika-mimetypes.xml and then place it at the front of your classpath in the package/folder org.apache.tika.mime, this will then override the default. Cheers, Dave
