Class: MIMEType (private in MIMETypes

• Inheritance
• Description
• Class protocol
  • instance creation
• Instance protocol
  • converting
  • queries

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--Collection
      |
      +--SequenceableCollection
         |
         +--ArrayedCollection
            |
            +--UninterpretedBytes
               |
               +--CharacterArray
                  |
                  +--String
                     |
                     +--ImmutableString
                        |
                        +--MIMETypes::MIMEType

Package:

stx:libview2

Category:

Net-Communication-Support

Owner:

MIMETypes

Description:

like a string, but knows that it represents a mimeType.
mimetypes are singletons, remembered in the class variable CachedTypes.

Class protocol:

 fromString: aStringOrSymbol

because we change class, the copy may not be identical

Usage example(s):

CachedTypes := nil. self fromString:'text/html'

Instance protocol:

 asMimeType

(comment from inherited method)
return myself as a mimeType instance

 fileTypeInfo

(MIMETypes mimeTypeFromString:'application/x-smalltalk-source') fileTypeInfo

 isArchive

return true, if I represent an archive type (such as zip or tar)

** This is an obsolete interface - do not use it (it may vanish in future versions) **

 isArchiveType

return true, if I represent an archive type (such as zip or tar)

 isAudioType

return true, if I represent some audio type

 isBinary

return true, if I represent a binary (non-text) type

** This is an obsolete interface - do not use it (it may vanish in future versions) **

 isBinaryType

return true, if I represent a binary (non-text) type

 isCHeaderType

return true, if I represent a C header file type

 isCPPSourceType

return true, if I represent a C++ sourcecode type

 isCSourceType

return true, if I represent a C sourcecode type

 isHtml

return true, if I represent the html text type

** This is an obsolete interface - do not use it (it may vanish in future versions) **

 isHtmlType

return true, if I represent the html text type

 isImage

return true, if I represent an image type (such as gif or jpg)

** This is an obsolete interface - do not use it (it may vanish in future versions) **

 isImageType

return true, if I represent an image type (such as gif or jpg)

 isJSONType

return true, if I represent a JSON type

 isPdf

return true, if I represent the pdf type

** This is an obsolete interface - do not use it (it may vanish in future versions) **

 isPdfType

return true, if I represent the pdf type

 isSmalltalkSource

return true, if I represent the smalltalk sourcecode type

** This is an obsolete interface - do not use it (it may vanish in future versions) **

 isSmalltalkSourceType

return true, if I represent the smalltalk sourcecode type

 isSourceCodeType

return true, if I represent some programming language's sourcecode type

 isTextType

return true, if I represent some text type

 isXml

return true, if I represent the xml text type

** This is an obsolete interface - do not use it (it may vanish in future versions) **

 isXmlType

return true, if I represent the xml text type

 suffix

(MIMETypes mimeTypeFromString:'application/x-expecco-testsuite') suffix