Merge pull request #8085 from acapilleri/format_never_nil

if format is unknown NullMimeTypeObject is returned

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/mime_type.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/mime_type.rb
index f56f09c5b3..912da741b7 100644
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/mime_type.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/mime_type.rb
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ module Mime
   class << self
     def [](type)
       return type if type.is_a?(Type)
-      Type.lookup_by_extension(type)
+      Type.lookup_by_extension(type) || NullType.new
     end
 
     def fetch(type)
@@ -306,6 +306,17 @@ module Mime
       method.to_s.ends_with? '?'
     end
   end
+  
+  class NullType
+    def nil?
+      true
+    end
+
+    private
+    def method_missing(method, *args)
+      false if method.to_s.ends_with? '?'
+    end
+  end
 end
 
 require 'action_dispatch/http/mime_types'