[Registry-dev] dealing with media types

[Sanjiva Weerawarana]

I guess for full-text search we should look at the Apache Lucene search 
engine and see whether it makes sense to integrate that. Maybe also Apache 
Solr which is part of lucene.apache.org.

I don't know anything about search engines but we could ask a Lucene 
person and find out how to do it right.

Let's get the registry basic stuff operational and then contact some folks 
over in Lucene-land.

Sanjiva.

Paul Fremantle wrote:
> +1 on this.
> 
> Do we also need a way to add search terms to the registry.
> 
> For example, suppose I add a WSDL file. I would like the WSDL processing 
> extension to add the service names as search items (possibly we need to 
> add QName support?). Also I'd like it to add any documentation text to 
> the set of full-text searchable text. How should we cope with this?
> 
> Paul
> 
> Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote:
>> We had a small discussion here in Colombo about $subject and here are 
>> the notes:
>>
>> We need a media type table to keep track of how to determine the media 
>> type for a given file extension. This is needed to not force users to 
>> have to always give us the media type when the resource they are 
>> plopping into the registry has a known file extension.
>>
>> Usage:
>> - When a resource is inserted to the repository, we need to determin 
>> the media type. This comes from one of three sources:
>>     - user gives it
>>     - if the resource name has an extension, look up the extension in
>>       the table above
>>     - otherwise unknown
>> - When a resource is obtained from the repository, we set the right 
>> media type using this table
>>
>> How do we populate the file extension -> media type table? Initially 
>> we will just copy the default mime.types file from Apache HTTPD and 
>> put it in the core jar file somewhere so that we can have it built in.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Sanjiva.
> 

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