Re: How to get file extention from Content-type.

How to get File Extension from Content type?
I just wanted to know is there something inbuilt available?

I can write code and load content-types.properties file and get file
extension from content type.

If u have any info about same ..please let me know.

Thanks

shilpa wrote:
> Thanks Thomas...
>
> Sorry for confusion caused..
>
> My problem is I want to handle mail attachments. and some mail client
> like Lotus notes sends attachments without file names.
> So my issue is I want to create temporary file for handling attachment
> without file name. So for that I want to have correct file extension.
> And for that I need to get File extesion from Content Type(Mime Type)
>
> So how to get file extesion from file name.
>
> Thanks
> Shilpa
>
>
> Thomas Weidenfeller wrote:
> > shilpa wrote:
> > > I want to get file extention from file's content-type.
> > > I wanted to handle file with blank name in my mail client.
> > > For handling this I need to create temporary file. For that I need to
> > > decide file extention based on content-type.
> > >
> > > getFileNameMap(..) function of UrlConnection constructs FileNameMap but
> > > FileNameMap has method just to fetch content type from file extetion. I
> > > want exactly opposite of this i.e File extention from Content-Type.
> >
> > Sorry, but this doesn't make much sense. You talk about e-mail (which
> > would be POP3, IMAP, SMTP or similar), then you talk about a file, but
> > then you also talk about URLConnection (which would mean HTTP). So what
> > is it from what you want to get some content type information? And what
> > content type? I would guess we are talking MIME types here, aren't we?
> >
> > If it is e-mail, then JavaMail has the means to extract MIME parts from
> > a mail and provide you with the MIME types of the parts. If it is a file
> > you probably want the JavaBeans Activation Framework (JAF) alone. If it
> > is HTTP and URLConnection is not enough, you might want to look into
> > Apache/Jakarta/Commons.
> >
> > /Thomas
> >
> > --
> > The comp.lang.java.gui FAQ:
> > ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/NEWS.ANSWERS/computer-lang/java/gui/faq
> > http://www.uni-giessen.de/faq/archiv/computer-lang.java.gui.faq/

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