Smartling File Type Detector

What is it

File Type Detector service makes best effort to identify format of a file by

• known file extension
• analyzing file contents

Supported file types are listed in the docs

Identification of textual formats is based on Smartling ml-text library.

Running

The service is based on Spring Boot, see spring boot gradle.

Running in-place

./gradlew bootRun

API

identify

POST /v1/filetype/identify

The method expects multipart/form-data file upload.

Example

curl -F "[email protected]" "https://api.smartling.com/v1/filetype/identify"

Response

{"response":
  {"data":
    [
      {"name": "example.lang",
       "type": ["gettext","javaProperties","csv"],
       "confidence": [0.82,0.41,0.1],
       "referenceId": "a0b1c2d3"
      }
    ],
  "code": "SUCCESS",
  "messages": []
}}

SDK

The service comes with a Java client

Detection Logic

Authors

• Pavel Ivashkov

Copyright and license

Copyright 2015 Smartling, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this work except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License in the LICENSE file, or at:

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.