CombineFormatizer

The CombineFormatizer contains methods to obtain format URIs for certain file types.

• see Formatizer class
• JavaDoc

About Formats

Within the COMBINE community, file formats are usually expressed as URIs, e.g. in combinearchive:wiki. That is, an SBML file may for example be of format http://identifiers.org/combine.specifications/sbml. This often makes things extra complicated and, thus, we developed the CombineFormatizer.

Getting Formats

The Formatizer class provides some methods to retrieve a format given a file:

Get Format given a File Extension

If you just have a file extension you may pass it to Formatizer.getFormatFromExtension (String) JavaDoc:

File f = ...
String extension = f.getName ().substring (f.getName ().lastIndexOf (".") + 1);
URI format = Formatizer.getFormatFromExtension (extension);

That is obviously not the best method, but it might be a good start.

Get Format given a Media Type

The CombineFormatizer is also able to guess formats from media types using Formatizer.getFormatFromMime (String) JavaDoc:

File f = ...
String mime = Files.probeContentType (f.toPath ());
URI format = Formatizer.getFormatFromMime (mime);

Guess the Format

You can also pass a file object to Formatizer.guessFormat (File) JavaDoc:

File f = ...
URI format = Formatizer.guessFormat (f);

Extend the Formatizer with your formats

To learn how to extend the Formatizer to also recognize other file types see ExtendCombineFormatizer.