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.

Th

Answer 1

After trying various other libraries I settled with mime-util.

eu.medsea.mimeutil
      mime-util
      2.1.3


File file = new File("D:/test.tif");
MimeUtil.registerMimeDetector("eu.medsea.mimeutil.detector.MagicMimeMimeDetector");
Collection mimeTypes = MimeUtil.getMimeTypes(file);
System.out.println(mimeTypes);