[web-devel] Simple mime-type package

[Peter Robinson]

To avoid the hard coding issue, why not simply introduce a MimeType type class?

  Peter

On 22 April 2010 18:42, Jeremy Shaw <jeremy at n-heptane.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I am not especially excited about it. The fact that some mime-types are hard
> coded, and others are not is an annoying 'inconsistency'.
> There is no way to extend the list of supported types in user apps. And
> typeByExt has a rather limited set up extensions, declaring everything else
> to be application/octet-stream.
> The use of a type for the mime-types implies that you want to be pattern
> matching on the constructors in your code ? Can you give a use case for that
> ?
> - jeremy
> On Apr 21, 2010, at 11:56 AM, Michael Snoyman wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> In Yesod, I have very modest needs when it comes to mime-types. Basically, I
> want:
> * a data type to represent mime-types
> * convert a string to a mime-type
> * convert a mime-type to a string
> * determine mime-type of a file based on extension
> I've stuck all this in a simple module: Web.Mime[1]. However, it seems like
> this is a perfect candidate for a dedicated package. So I wanted to ask:
> 1) Is there a package out there- with minimal dependencies- that supplies
> this functionality?
> 2) If not, would anyone else find it useful if I split this off into its own
> package?
> Michael
> [1] http://github.com/snoyberg/yesod/blob/ver0.2/Web/Mime.hs
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