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authorGravatar Christophe Fergeau2016-05-12 02:52:50 +0200
committerGravatar Nikias Bassen2016-05-12 02:52:50 +0200
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Add plist_is_binary()
It can be useful if one needs to know what type of plist a memory buffer contains.
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diff --git a/include/plist/plist.h b/include/plist/plist.h
index acd1c4d..2b7e1a1 100644
--- a/include/plist/plist.h
+++ b/include/plist/plist.h
@@ -616,6 +616,19 @@ extern "C"
*/
void plist_from_bin(const char *plist_bin, uint32_t length, plist_t * plist);
+ /**
+ * Test if in-memory plist data is binary or XML
+ * This method will look at the first bytes of plist_data
+ * to determine if plist_data contains a binary or XML plist.
+ * This method is not validating the whole memory buffer to check if the
+ * content is truly a plist, it's only using some heuristic on the first few
+ * bytes of plist_data.
+ *
+ * @param plist_data a pointer to the memory buffer containing plist data.
+ * @param length length of the buffer to read.
+ * @return 1 if the buffer is a binary plist, 0 otherwise.
+ */
+ int plist_is_binary(const char *plist_data, uint32_t length);
/********************************************
* *