[TIKA-515] MimeType.getDescription() often returns nothing when "tika-mimetypes.xml" has a useful description already available.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.7
• Fix Version/s: 0.8
• Component/s: mime

Environment

ALL

• Assignee: Chris A. Mattmann
• Reporter: Miroslav Pokorny
• Created: 15/Sep/10 03:13
• Updated: 31/Oct/10 01:54
• Resolved: 31/Oct/10 01:54

Description

The reader that reads the XML and builds MimeTypes seem to be hard coded to the read only a single element when another is often used to hold descriptions/comments..

String COMMENT_TAG = "_comment";

MimeTypesReader.readMimeType(Element element) throws MimeTypeException {
if (nodeElement.getTagName().equals(COMMENT_TAG)) {
type.setDescription(
nodeElement.getFirstChild().getNodeValue());

-xml sample #1-

<mime-type type="application/msword">
<alias type="application/vnd.ms-word"/>
<comment>Microsoft Word Document</comment>

notice "comment" not "_comment' element...

Why not simply rename all "_comment" tags to _comment and update the constant and all will be well.