Added new mimetype app to handle mimetype guessing and provide mimetype related icons when a preview is not available

apps/common/utils.py

@@ -13,15 +13,6 @@ from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType
 from django.contrib.auth.models import User
 
 
-try:
-    from python_magic import magic
-    USE_PYTHON_MAGIC = True
-except:
-    import mimetypes
-    mimetypes.init()
-    USE_PYTHON_MAGIC = False
-
-
 def urlquote(link=None, get=None):
     u'''
     This method does both: urlquote() and urlencode()
@@ -349,34 +340,6 @@ def return_diff(old_obj, new_obj, attrib_list=None):
     return diff_dict
 
 
-def get_mimetype(filepath):
-    """
-    Determine a file's mimetype by calling the system's libmagic
-    library via python-magic or fallback to use python's mimetypes
-    library
-    """
-    file_mimetype = u''
-    file_mime_encoding = u''
-
-    if USE_PYTHON_MAGIC:
-        if os.path.exists(filepath):
-            try:
-                source = open(filepath, 'r')
-                mime = magic.Magic(mime=True)
-                file_mimetype = mime.from_buffer(source.read())
-                source.seek(0)
-                mime_encoding = magic.Magic(mime_encoding=True)
-                file_mime_encoding = mime_encoding.from_buffer(source.read())
-            finally:
-                if source:
-                    source.close()
-    else:
-        path, filename = os.path.split(filepath)
-        file_mimetype, file_mime_encoding = mimetypes.guess_type(filename)
-
-    return file_mimetype, file_mime_encoding
-
-
 def validate_path(path):
     if os.path.exists(path) != True:
         # If doesn't exist try to create it