#MIME type package

Package for working with MIME type definitions and for processing streams of MIME multipart media types.

##Determining the MIME type for a file

The MimeTypeResolver class can be used to determine the MIME type of a file. It supports both using the extension of the file name and looking at magic bytes from the begining of the file.

There is a builtin instance of MimeTypeResolver accessible through the top level function lookupMimeType. This builtin instance has the most common file name extensions and magic bytes registered.

print(lookupMimeType('test.html'));  // Will print text/html
print(lookupMimeType('test', [0xFF, 0xD8]));  // Will print image/jpeg
print(lookupMimeType('test.html', [0xFF, 0xD8]));  // Will print image/jpeg

You can build you own resolver by creating an instance of MimeTypeResolver and adding file name extensions and magic bytes using addExtension and addMagicNumber.

##Processing MIME multipart media types

The class MimeMultipartTransformer is used to process a Stream of bytes encoded using a MIME multipart media types encoding. The transformer provides a new Stream of MimeMultipart objects each of which have the headers and the content of each part. The content of a part is provided as a stream of bytes.

Below is an example showing how to process an HTTP request and print the length of the content of each part.

// HTTP request with content type multipart/form-data.
HttpRequest request = ...;
// Determine the boundary form the content type header
String boundary = request.headers.contentType.parameters['boundary'];

// Process the body just calculating the length of each part.
request.transform(new MimeMultipartTransformer(boundary))
    .map((part) => part.fold(0, (p, d) => p + d))
    .listen((length) => print('Part with length $length'));

Take a look at the HttpBodyHandler in the http_server package for handling different content types in a HTTP request.