Determining binary/text file type in Java?

Question

Namely, how would you tell an archive (jar/rar/etc.) file from a textual (xml/txt, encoding-independent) one?

Answer 1

I used this code and it works for English and German text pretty well:

private boolean isTextFile(String filePath) throws Exception {
    File f = new File(filePath);
    if(!f.exists())
        return false;
    FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(f);
    int size = in.available();
    if(size > 1000)
        size = 1000;
    byte[] data = new byte[size];
    in.read(data);
    in.close();
    String s = new String(data, "ISO-8859-1");
    String s2 = s.replaceAll(
            "[a-zA-Z0-9ßöäü\\.\\*!\"§\\$\\%&/()=\\?@~'#:,;\\"+
            "+><\\|\\[\\]\\{\\}\\^°²³\\\\ \\n\\r\\t_\\-`´âêîô"+
            "ÂÊÔÎáéíóàèìòÁÉÍÓÀÈÌÒ©‰¢£¥€±¿»«¼½¾™ª]", "");
    // will delete all text signs

    double d = (double)(s.length() - s2.length()) / (double)(s.length());
    // percentage of text signs in the text
    return d > 0.95;
}