Identifying file type in Java

Question

Please help me to find out the type of the file which is being uploaded. I wanted to distinguish between excel type and csv.

MIMEType returns same for both of thes

Answer 1

I figured out a cheaper way of doing this with java.nio.file.Files

public String getContentType(File file) throws IOException {
        return Files.probeContentType(file.toPath());
}

- or -

public String getContentType(Path filePath) throws IOException {
        return Files.probeContentType(filePath);
}

Hope that helps.

Cheers.