Howto Change Mimetype for Existing Content

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stevewickii

How would I change the mime-type on a piece of existing content?

I have tried several methods and none seem to work.  The program executes with no problem, it just doesn't do anything to the content.

Method 1: Using the ContentWriter

TransactionService transactionService = serviceRegistry.getTransactionService();
RetryingTransactionCallback<Object> exampleWork = new RetryingTransactionCallback<Object>()
{
            public Object execute() throws Exception
            {
                  ContentWriter content = contentService.getWriter(nodeIWantToChange, ContentModel.PROP_CONTENT, true);
                content.setMimetype(MimetypeMap.MIMETYPE_HTML);
                return null;
            }
};
transactionService.getRetryingTransactionHelper().doInTransaction(exampleWork);
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Method 2: Using the ContentReader

TransactionService transactionService = serviceRegistry.getTransactionService();
RetryingTransactionCallback<Object> exampleWork = new RetryingTransactionCallback<Object>()
{
            public Object execute() throws Exception
            {
                  ContentReader content = contentService.getReader(nodeIWantToChange, ContentModel.PROP_CONTENT);
                content.setMimetype(MimetypeMap.MIMETYPE_HTML);
                return null;
            }
};
transactionService.getRetryingTransactionHelper().doInTransaction(exampleWork);
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tommorris

I'm not sure. That's how I would try it. It could be a defect.

Perhaps that only works if you're actually going to go ahead and write something using the channel you get from the ContentWriter…?
It would be a shame to stream the content out and then back in though.

Maybe try opening up random access channel and then force write-flush, with the 'metadata' param as true:

fileChannel = contentWriter.getFileChannel(false);
contentWriter.setMimetype("text/plain");
fileChannel.force(true);
fileChannel.close();

…?