[Registry-dev] dealing with media types

[Jonathan Marsh]

It would be nice someday to use a web service to look up unknown extensions
(Windows has had a simple POX service for this for quite a while).  This
allows new extensions to be mapped to media types.  Even better if the table
content is user-generated, e.g. if I start using the .wsdl2 extension (and I
do!), and am able to "publish" a mapping of it to application/xml+wsdl,
others can take advantage of that mapping immediately.

Hmmm, sounds like an online registry of sorts...

Jonathan Marsh - http://www.wso2.com - http://auburnmarshes.spaces.live.com
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: registry-dev-bounces at wso2.org [mailto:registry-dev-
> bounces at wso2.org] On Behalf Of Sanjiva Weerawarana
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 12:26 AM
> To: registry-dev at wso2.org
> Subject: [Registry-dev] dealing with media types
> 
> 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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> Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://www.wso2.com/
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