[jira] [Commented] (TIKA-661) MimeType class does contain a String with accessor named Extension. This should be a List Extensions due to several reasons.

["Nick Burch (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Nick Burch commented on TIKA-661:
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Currently we only allow one mime type to have any given extension. Possibly we could relax that slightly if we implement support like this

> MimeType class does contain a String with accessor named Extension. This should be a List<String> Extensions due to several reasons.
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>                 Key: TIKA-661
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-661
>             Project: Tika
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: mime
>    Affects Versions: 0.9
>            Reporter: Henning Gross
>              Labels: features, newbie, patch
>
> The javadoc for the method suggest that it will return the "preferred extension" for a MimeType. Acutally its the first Extension deserialized from tika-mimetypes.xml. The method would have to be renamed to getFirstExtensionInList(). This pretty much points at the fact that this method makes no sense at all. 
> There are several use-cases in which one would want to know ALL known valid extensions for one mime type. I will submit a patch later today.

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