From 449e27bf754f903f856a741e163a9e4a0c8037b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christophe Fergeau
Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 02:52:50 +0200
Subject: Add plist_is_binary()

It can be useful if one needs to know what type of plist a memory buffer
contains.
---
 include/plist/plist.h | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

(limited to 'include')

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);
 
     /********************************************
      *                                          *
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