java library to find the mime type from file content

Question

I am searching for a java library which tells you the mime type by looking at the file content(byte array). I found this project using jmimemagic and it no longer supports newer file types (eg. MS word docx format) as it is inactive now (from 2006).

Answer 1

Use Apache tika for content detection. Please find the link below. http://tika.apache.org/0.8/detection.html. We have so many jar dependencies which you can find when you build tika using maven

        ByteArrayInputStream bai = new ByteArrayInputStream(pByte);
        ContentHandler contenthandler = new BodyContentHandler();
        Metadata metadata = new Metadata();
        Parser parser = new AutoDetectParser();
        try {
              parser.parse(bai, contenthandler, metadata);

        } catch (IOException e) {
              // TODO Auto-generated catch block
              e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (SAXException e) {
              // TODO Auto-generated catch block
              e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (TikaException e) {
              // TODO Auto-generated catch block
              e.printStackTrace();
        }           
        System.out.println("Mime: " + metadata.get(Metadata.CONTENT_TYPE));
        return metadata.get(Metadata.CONTENT_TYPE);