IDfFormatRecognizer gives different document types for same file

Mayur_shivs

Hello , i have this piece of code  for format recognizer

IDfFormatRecognizer formatRec = clientX.getFormatRecognizer(idfSession, strPath, null);

            if(formatRec.getDefaultSuggestedFileFormat() != null) {

                format = formatRec.getDefaultSuggestedFileFormat();                   

            } else {

                format = PropertyClass.getPropertyLabel(DocumentumHandlerQTLConstants.UNKNOWN_FILE_TYPE);

            }

i have a file named as  " \Books\samson.doc" so if i pass this as strPath to aboce method , then this method returns format as "MSW6"

but when i pass "samson.doc" to above method as strPath then it returns me  only "MSW"

why it it so

Regards

Haroon_A

I have heard that format recognizer is not intelligent enough to recognize the format correctly all the time. I'd suggest you manually detect your format, by parsing the extension of your file. You can search the forum, in fact there are discussion for this topic.