[ckan-dev] mimetype suggestion in package creation

Tue May 31 11:13:41 UTC 2011

Hi, Flávio!

Nice to see other people from Brazil posting at the CKAN-dev list.

I like your suggestion. It'd be a good way to implement the ideas for
usability improvement in the package registration I mentioned here on
the list a few days ago.

Cheers,
Augusto Herrmann

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Flavio Coelho <fccoelho at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just a quick suggestion of a little feature which would make life for
> package creators and maintainers a bit easier.
>
> I have done a quick ticket search about it and have found nothing, so
> here it is:
>
> Python Standard library has a module called mimetypes. I suggest using
> it to auto-fill the mimetype field for resources. mimetypes can
> recognize a large number of mimetypes (see mimetypes.types_map) with
> mimetypes.guess_type, and new ones can be added with
> mimetypes.add_type.
>
> Naturally when mimetypes fails to guess the file type, the user would
> be allowed to fill it in as is currently the norm.
>
> what do you think about it?
>
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