Getting A File's Mime Type In Java

Question

I was just wondering how most people fetch a mime type from a file in Java? So far I\'ve tried two utils: JMimeMagic & Mime-Util.

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Answer 1

This is the simplest way I found for doing this:

byte[] byteArray = ...
InputStream is = new BufferedInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(byteArray));
String mimeType = URLConnection.guessContentTypeFromStream(is);