Interface/enum listing standard mime-type constants

Question

From https://docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/api/javax/ws/rs/core/MediaType.html :

staticjava.lang.String APPLICATION_ATOM_XML             "application/atom+xml"
staticMediaType        APPLICATION_ATOM_XML_TYPE        "application/atom+xml"
staticjava.lang.String APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED      "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
staticMediaType        APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED_TYPE "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
staticjava.lang.String APPLICATION_JSON                 "application/json"
staticMediaType        APPLICATION_JSON_TYPE            "application/json"
staticjava.lang.String APPLICATION_OCTET_STREAM         "application/octet-stream"
staticMediaType        APPLICATION_OCTET_STREAM_TYPE    "application/octet-stream"
staticjava.lang.String APPLICATION_SVG_XML              "application/svg+xml"
staticMediaType        APPLICATION_SVG_XML_TYPE         "application/svg+xml"
staticjava.lang.String APPLICATION_XHTML_XML            "application/xhtml+xml"
staticMediaType        APPLICATION_XHTML_XML_TYPE       "application/xhtml+xml"
staticjava.lang.String APPLICATION_XML                  "application/xml"
staticMediaType        APPLICATION_XML_TYPE             "application/xml"
staticjava.lang.String MEDIA_TYPE_WILDCARD              The value of a type or subtype wildcard: "*"
staticjava.lang.String MULTIPART_FORM_DATA              "multipart/form-data"
staticMediaType        MULTIPART_FORM_DATA_TYPE         "multipart/form-data"
staticjava.lang.String TEXT_HTML                        "text/html"
staticMediaType        TEXT_HTML_TYPE                   "text/html"
staticjava.lang.String TEXT_PLAIN                       "text/plain"
staticMediaType        TEXT_PLAIN_TYPE                  "text/plain"
staticjava.lang.String TEXT_XML                         "text/xml"
staticMediaType        TEXT_XML_TYPE                    "text/xml"
staticjava.lang.String WILDCARD                         "*/*"
staticMediaType        WILDCARD_TYPE                    "*/*"

If you are using Spring Framework then there is a MediaType class for common content types:

MediaType.TEXT_HTML 
MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN 
MediaType.TEXT_XML 
MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON 
MediaType.IMAGE_JPEG 
...

Guava library

We have a Guava class for this: com.google.common.net.MediaType.

It was released with Guava 12 as stated in the source code and in Issue 823. Sources are available, too.

There is now also the class org.apache.http.entity.ContentType from package org.apache.httpcomponents.httpcore, starting from 4.2 up.

javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType from JAX-RS

Java 7 to the rescue!

You can either pass the file or the file name and it will return the MIME type.

String mimeType = MimetypesFileTypeMap
    .getDefaultFileTypeMap()
    .getContentType(attachment.getFileName());

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/javax/activation/MimetypesFileTypeMap.html

There's also a MediaType class in androidannotations in case you want to use with android! See here.