How do I determine type?

I'm working on a project where I would like users to be able to upload multimedia (audio, video, images) into the database using a web form, but I'm having some problems. Once a user has uploaded something, I need to figure out if it is an image, audio clip, or video so that I can create an OrdImage, OrdAudio, or OrdVideo. Does Oracle provide anything that will allow me to do this? I know I could use Java to check the MIME type of the uploaded file, but it seems to rely on the file extension to determine the MIME, and this doesn't seem especially reliable.
Thanks for the help!

Hi,
I think what you really need here is the new ORDSYS.ORDDoc type, introduced in Oracle9i. The ORDDoc type is designed to hold media of any type (image, audio, or video), and can determine the MIME type of any recognized format. However, as I said, that is new with Oracle9i.
For Oracle8i, you have a number of choices. One option would be to upload the data to a temporary BLOB, then use the interMedia relational interface to determine its type by calling the image, audio and video setProperties method. When one of the setProperties methods recognizes the format, you could store the data in an ORDSYS object of the appropriate type. Another approach might be to always store the data in a table in a BLOB, and always access and process the data using the relational interface.
Having said that, please be aware that interMedia doesn't recognize all media formats, although we are adding new ones all the time. For example, new ones were added in Oracle8i 8.1.7 and in Oracle9i 9.0.1.
Therefore, for those formats that interMedia doesn't recognize, you really have no option but to rely on the MIME type supplied by the browser, which is indeed based on the file name extension of an uploaded file. In fact, interMedia Java Classes for Servlets and JSPs does just this for unrecognized formats. If a call to setProperties fails, the store methods will use the browser-supplied value to set the mimeType attribute.
In summary, if its likely that users will be mucking about with file name extensions, then I'd go with using the relational interface, in one manner or another, at least for 8i; for 9i, there's ORDDoc. Alternatively, generally speaking, using the media type component of the browser-supplied MIME type, will typically work in most cases.
Hope that helps.
In order to better understand the variety of ways in which our customers are using interMedia, we'd be very interested in knowing a little more about your application, the interMedia functionality that you are using, how you are developing and deploying your application, and any new functionality you'd like to see added to Oracle interMedia. If you are able to help us, please send a short email message with some information about your application, together with any comments you may have, to the Oracle interMedia Product Manager, Joe Mauro, at [email protected]. Thank you!
Regards,
Simon
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