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Transformer for application/octet-stream

alfrescot3ster — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 08:44:24 GMT

Hello guys!I want to achieve my goal, transform a .msg (Outlook Email).So I want to create a rendition for the mail body at least.ContentTransformer transformer = contentService.getTransformer(actualMimetype, MimetypeMap.MIMETYPE_PDF);if (transformer == null) { LOG.warn("no transformer found to t

Re: Transformer for application/octet-stream

steven_okennedy — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 23:22:41 GMT

Hi

application/octet-stream can be roughly considered as "a binary file that I don't understand" - this is basically used by Alfresco by default for files that it can't determine the mimetype of e.g. a file with an extension that it doesn't recognise. As far as I know it uses the mimetype-map.xml file to hold a list of the default mime types and file extensions that it's aware of - this file lives in the alfresco-data-model.jar file these days.

However, there is already a mimetype mapping in the file that maps the .msg file extension to "application/vnd.ms-outlook", so I'm not sure why you're seeing application/octet-stream. What exactly are you doing to create your rendition and what content are trying to transform? Does your email have a .msg extension?

Regards

Steven

Re: Transformer for application/octet-stream

alfrescot3ster — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 05:57:00 GMT

Thx for the hint. The mimetype was sent from the frontend and it does not recognize the .msg mimetype . Now it works quite good with 'application/vnd.ms-outlook'.

Now I have a other problem:


ContentWriter writer = contentService.getWriter(destNodeRef, ContentModel.PROP_CONTENT, true);
writer.setMimetype(mimetype);  // mimetype = 'application/vnd.ms-outlook'
writer.setEncoding("UTF-8");
writer.putContent(content);‍‍‍‍‍

But the encoding is still wrong, he can't decode 'ä', 'ü' and so on. Someone knows the solution?

Second thing, how can I get the attachments of an email? I used 'MailMetadataExtracter' to extract the metadatas, but I am not able to get the attachments. Someone knows that too?