Associating File Type with SharePoint Parser

Earlier I have posted the post showing the parsers that are available in the SharePoint. In this post I will show how to associate a file type with the SharePoint default parsers. This can be helpful if anyone wants to parse the file with its own extension but want to use the default parser. In this I have created a document parser object and added that object to the Pluggable Parser set available to the Web Service.

CODE SIPPET

namespace ParserExample

{

    class Program

    {

        static void Main(string[] args)

        {

            #region Custom Extension Association

            //getting the Plugable Parsers

            SPWebService objService = SPWebService.ContentService;

            Dictionary<string, SPDocumentParser> parser =

objService.PluggableParsers;

            //Creating a custom parser

            string extension = "txt";

            string progID = parser["docx"].ProgId;

            SPDocumentParser customParser = new SPDocumentParser(progID,

extension);

            //Removing the parser if already exists

            if (parser.ContainsKey(extension))

            {

                parser.Remove(extension);

                objService.Update();

            }

            //Adding the custom parser to the pluggable parser collection

            objService.PluggableParsers.Add(extension, customParser);

            objService.Update();

            #endregion

        }

    }

}

Output