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I'm learning swift , and I made a table with cells that show an image ,and classes in groups by MIME TYPE (using path extension). I had a question about extensions. If the images (for example, it could be a video or a pdf) are taken from internet , i'm not sure if they have the extension or not how can I get the MIMEtype of a file inside my file System without using path extension ? PS :Sorry for my bad english it's not my native language
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The abbreviation MIME stands for Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions. MIME types form a standard way of classifying file types on the internet. First, let's have a look at a common MIME type for an example: text/html. A MIME type consists of two parts: a type and a subtype.
Slightly longer answer: Mime types and file extensions provide hints to how to deal with a file. Whereas file extensions are commonly used for your OS to decide what program to open a file with, Mime types are used by your browser to decide how to present some data (or the server on how to interpret received data).
string mimeType = MimeMapping. GetMimeMapping(fileName); If you need to add custom mappings you probably can use reflection to add mappings to the BCL MimeMapping class, it uses a custom dictionary that exposes this method, so you should invoke the following to add mappings (never tested tho, but should prob. work).
All MIME type information is stored in a database. The MIME database is located in the directory /usr/share/mime/ . The MIME database contains a large number of common MIME types, stored in the file /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.
If anyone wants to get the MimeType from the actual URL of the file this code worked for me:
import MobileCoreServices func mimeTypeForPath(path: String) -> String { let url = NSURL(fileURLWithPath: path) let pathExtension = url.pathExtension if let uti = UTTypeCreatePreferredIdentifierForTag(kUTTagClassFilenameExtension, pathExtension! as NSString, nil)?.takeRetainedValue() { if let mimetype = UTTypeCopyPreferredTagWithClass(uti, kUTTagClassMIMEType)?.takeRetainedValue() { return mimetype as String } } return "application/octet-stream" } If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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