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JavaScriptdeepagentsbackendsgetMimeType
Function●Since v1.9

getMimeType

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getMimeType(filePath: string): string
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Parameters

NameTypeDescription
filePath*string

Determine MIME type from a file path's extension.

Returns "application/octet-stream" for unknown extensions so that binary files are not accidentally treated as text (grep, read_file, etc. rely on isTextMimeType which would return true for "text/plain").

File path to inspect