trunk/apache-rat-core/src/main/java/org/apache/rat/api/MimeTyper.java

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package org.apache.rat.api;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

/**
 * Discovers the mime type of content.
 */
public interface MimeTyper {

    /**
     * Guesses the mime type for the given content.
     * @param inputStream not null
     * @param name possibly null
     * @return guessed content type, not null.
     * @throws IOException in case of I/O errors.
     */
    ContentType type(final InputStream inputStream, String name) throws IOException;
}