This is a very straight forward question.
I have a Content-Type
stored in the form of a string.
Ideally I'd like to infer an extension from that Content-Type
without having to have a giant nasty switch case.
Is there a built in construct to achieve this?
Btw, I found this question but that goes the opposite direction from extension to content-type.
You'll want a Dictionary
. This will allow you to look up an extension for a given content type:
Dictionary<string, string> extensionLookup = new Dictionary<string, string>()
{
{"ContentType1", ".ext1"},
{"ContentType2", ".ext2"},
};
You can populate the dictionary based on a database table, a file, etc. rather than hard coding the values.
Once you have the Dictionary
it's as simple as:
string extension = extensionLookup[someContentType];