Wrong MIME when grabbing S3 file after different filetype version

[geomic]

In my Uploader Class I've got:

version :thumb do process :resize_to_limit => [200, 200] process :convert =>['png'] def full_filename(for_file = model.file) "thumb.gif" end end

which seems to correctly upload a PNG version of my PDF (converted through RMagick) on S3 (through fog).

It seems, however, that although I'm using process :convert => ['png'], carrierwave still uploads the file with a MIME type of an application/pdf rather than that of a PNG. Is there some way to just set the content type for this specific version?

The bigger picture: I'm trying to allow users to either upload Image files or PDFs. In the former case, the users can download the full image by clicking on the thumbnail (:thumb), in the latter, they can see (:thumb) in the page, but download the PDF. i.e. carrierwave, under the same record, has both the filename.pdf and thumb.png files stored - but when I try the image_tag in HAML, I get an error about the MIME (for the png) being application/pdf.

[FGurevich]

I'm not entirely positive if it's a mime issue when converting to a png or if carrierwave sets a mime column in your db based on the original file but isn't properly overriding it after converting, but try this to set the mime type manually:

require 'carrierwave/processing/mime_types'
class Uploader < CarrierWave::Uploader::Base
  include CarrierWave::MimeTypes

  version :thumb do
    process :resize_to_limit => [200, 200]
    process :convert => ['png']
    process :set_content_type

    def full_filename(for_file = model.file)
      "thumb.gif"
    end
  end
end

[trevorturk]

Good idea @FGurevich -- closing pending response from @geomic.

[geomic]

My apologies for not getting back to you @FGurevich (thank you!) and @trevorturk . I haven't had time to test this - but will definitely report back.

[geomic]

As promised, let me provide some feedback.

The solution didn't quite work as it was. As the original file is a PDF, all that set_content_type did was to set the Mime Type of the PNG to, well, application/pdf.

There was a similar post which suggested:

def set_content_type(*args) self.file.instance_variable_set(:@content_type, "image/png") end

..and since we know what our thumbnail will be already, this works like a charm. Safari previously would not be able to render the thumbnail as it thought it was a PDF, now it's happy with both the original PDF and the converted PNG.

I think: That the same way process :convert => ['png'] would "work" on the 'thumb' version which is just being generated, so should process :set_content_type check this (presumably temporary before it goes to S3 or wherever) file. This way, if different versions (DOC to PDF, DOC to PNG, whatever..) have different mimes, they'd be picked up automatically.

[jaybrueder]

@geomic Big thanks! You saved my project today with you solution.

[rogercampos]

Same issue here, I had to set the mime type the hard way to make it work:

    self.file.instance_variable_set(:@content_type, "image/jpeg")

It seems that it's really difficult to just change the format of a file or version: Add the convert line, deal with the new filename yourself overriding the filename method, and also take care of the correct mime type.