Parquet file type in media

[davetapley]

Would a PR to add 'application/vnd.apache.parquet' here be welcome?

falcon/falcon/constants.py

Lines 137 to 145 in b29fd55

	MEDIA_HTML = 'text/html; charset=utf-8'
	MEDIA_TEXT = 'text/plain; charset=utf-8'
	MEDIA_JPEG = 'image/jpeg'
	MEDIA_PNG = 'image/png'
	MEDIA_GIF = 'image/gif'
	MEDIA_BMP = 'image/bmp'
	DEFAULT_MEDIA_TYPE = MEDIA_JSON

[CaselIT]

Hi,

Probably not the most common file type, but I think it would be fine to have that constant.

Maybe we could add also csv? I'm not sure if there is standardized media type for it though

[vytas7]

Hm, I think it is maybe a bit too specific/niche? Because then it would feel logical to include many more media types like this.

Although it wouldn't hurt to add a constant or two, maybe we could instead start with an extension package, like falcon-parquet-handler? (That would include the said constant, and ParquetHandler.)

[vytas7]

On consideration, adding a couple more media types shouldn't really hurt.

@davetapley, we are happy to accept such a PR if you open it. While at it, you could add CSV according to RFC 4180 too.

There is also a related private mapping, constants._DEFAULT_STATIC_MEDIA_TYPES, for serving static files. We should add .parquet ➡️ MEDIA_PARQUET there.

[davetapley]

@vytas7 great! I will say 'yes', but won't be soon. Will comment here when starting, others welcome until then!