[TIKA-661] MimeType class does contain a String with accessor named Extension. This should be a List<String> Extensions due to several reasons.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.9
• Fix Version/s: 0.10
• Component/s: mime
• Labels: features newbie patch
• Assignee: Jukka Zitting
• Reporter: Henning Gross
• Created: 18/May/11 11:49
• Updated: 20/Oct/11 12:34
• Resolved: 18/May/11 18:06

Description

The javadoc for the method suggest that it will return the "preferred extension" for a MimeType. Acutally its the first Extension deserialized from tika-mimetypes.xml. The method would have to be renamed to getFirstExtensionInList(). This pretty much points at the fact that this method makes no sense at all.
There are several use-cases in which one would want to know ALL known valid extensions for one mime type. I will submit a patch later today.