I have just looked in the Umbraco source code in the MediaController.

Looks like that the core is default setting the mediatype to "File" or if the file-extension is jpg/png/ext. it is a "Image".

So no option of doing any thing like file-extion => mediatype in any config-files.

• Mikkel

Hi Mikkel,

First of all you need to create a new media type called PDF. You can inherit from the file media type. No extra properties are needed.

After that you need to add a eventhandler that converts your uploaded fileds with a pdf extension from the File media type to the PDF media type.

This should to do the trick.

namespace YourNameSpace
{
        /// <summary>
    /// Overriden ApplicationEventHandler class
    /// </summary>
    public class RegisterMediaEvents : ApplicationEventHandler
    {
        protected override void ApplicationStarting(UmbracoApplicationBase umbracoApplication, ApplicationContext applicationContext)
        {

            MediaService.Saved += this.MediaService_Saved;

        }        

        private void MediaService_Saved(IMediaService sender, SaveEventArgs<IMedia> e)
        {        
            foreach (var item in e.SavedEntities)
            {
                // only do this for file uploads
                if (item.ContentType.Alias.Equals(Models.ContentModels.File.ModelTypeAlias))
                {
                    var filePropertyValue = item.GetValue("umbracoFile");
                    if (filePropertyValue != null && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(filePropertyValue.ToString()))
                    {
                        var filename = filePropertyValue.ToString();

                        // check if the uploaded file is a pdf
                        var isPdf = filename.EndsWith(".pdf", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase)

                        if (isPdf)
                        {
                            var contentTypeService = Umbraco.Core.ApplicationContext.Current.Services.ContentTypeService;

                            var pdfMediaType = contentTypeService.GetMediaType("pdfMediaTypeAlias");

                            if (pdfMediaType != null)
                            {
                                item.ChangeContentType(pdfMediaType, true);

                                Umbraco.Core.ApplicationContext.Current.Services.MediaService.Save(item, 0, false);
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }


    }
}

Thanks Dave :-)

I was looking for a non-event soloution. Looks like I must be the event-way.

By the way shouldn't be the MediaService your are using?

var contentTypeService = Umbraco.Core.ApplicationContext.Current.Services.ContentTypeService;

Also if it works, can you mark this post as a solution, so others can find it as well.

dave

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