Getting MimeType subtype with Apache tika

Question

I\'d need to get the iana.org MediaType rather than application/zip or application/x-tika-msoffice for documents like, odt, ppt, pptx, xlsx etc.

If you look at mim

Answer 1

You can use a custom tika config file:

MimeTypes mimes=MimeTypesFactory.create(Thread.currentThread()
   .getContextClassLoader().getResource("tika-custom-MimeTypes.xml"));
Metadata metadata = new Metadata();
metadata.add(Metadata.RESOURCE_NAME_KEY, file.getName());
tis = TikaInputStream.get(file);
String mimetype = new  DefaultDetector(mimes).detect(tis,metadata).toString();

In the WEB-INF/classes put the "tika-custom-MimeTypes.xml" with your changes:

In my case: