[jira] [Commented] (TIKA-1692) Enable getExtension() for texty file types

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

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Nick Burch commented on TIKA-1692:
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Could you write a short unit test that shows the problem? As long as we can identify the type, we ought to be able to report the glob / globs for that type, whether application/ or video/ or text/

> Enable getExtension() for texty file types
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>
>                 Key: TIKA-1692
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1692
>             Project: Tika
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: core
>            Reporter: Tim Allison
>            Priority: Trivial
>             Fix For: 1.10
>
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> {{getExtension()}} offers a handy way to add a "detected" extension from a {{MimeType}} for a file that didn't come with an extension.  However, this functionality doesn't work with texty files: html, xml, css, csv, etc.  
> Let's add a static helper class (or build it into {{MimeType}}?) that will output an extension for all mime types including texty mime types. 



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