CoreFoundation/CFPropertyList.h

/*
 * Copyright (c) 2008-2009 Brent Fulgham <bfulgham@gmail.org>.  All rights reserved.
 *
 * This source code is a modified version of the CoreFoundation sources released by Apple Inc. under
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/*	CFPropertyList.h
	Copyright (c) 1998-2007, Apple Inc. All rights reserved.
*/

#if !defined(__COREFOUNDATION_CFPROPERTYLIST__)
#define __COREFOUNDATION_CFPROPERTYLIST__ 1

#include <CoreFoundation/CFBase.h>
#include <CoreFoundation/CFData.h>
#include <CoreFoundation/CFString.h>
#include <CoreFoundation/CFStream.h>

CF_EXTERN_C_BEGIN

enum {
    kCFPropertyListImmutable = 0,
    kCFPropertyListMutableContainers,
    kCFPropertyListMutableContainersAndLeaves
};
typedef CFOptionFlags CFPropertyListMutabilityOptions;
    
/*
	Creates a property list object from its XML description; xmlData should
	be the raw bytes of that description, possibly the contents of an XML
	file. Returns NULL if the data cannot be parsed; if the parse fails
	and errorString is non-NULL, a human-readable description of the failure
	is returned in errorString. It is the caller's responsibility to release
	either the returned object or the error string, whichever is applicable.
*/
CF_EXPORT
CFPropertyListRef CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(CFAllocatorRef allocator, CFDataRef xmlData, CFOptionFlags mutabilityOption, CFStringRef *errorString);

/*
	Returns the XML description of the given object; propertyList must
	be one of the supported property list types, and (for composite types
	like CFArray and CFDictionary) must not contain any elements that
	are not themselves of a property list type. If a non-property list
	type is encountered, NULL is returned. The returned data is
	appropriate for writing out to an XML file. Note that a data, not a
	string, is returned because the bytes contain in them a description
	of the string encoding used.
*/
CF_EXPORT
CFDataRef CFPropertyListCreateXMLData(CFAllocatorRef allocator, CFPropertyListRef propertyList);

/*
	Recursively creates a copy of the given property list (so nested arrays
	and dictionaries are copied as well as the top-most container). The
	resulting property list has the mutability characteristics determined
	by mutabilityOption.
*/
CF_EXPORT
CFPropertyListRef CFPropertyListCreateDeepCopy(CFAllocatorRef allocator, CFPropertyListRef propertyList, CFOptionFlags mutabilityOption);

#if MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_2 <= MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED

enum {
    kCFPropertyListOpenStepFormat = 1,
    kCFPropertyListXMLFormat_v1_0 = 100,
    kCFPropertyListBinaryFormat_v1_0 = 200
};
typedef CFIndex CFPropertyListFormat;

CF_EXPORT
Boolean CFPropertyListIsValid(CFPropertyListRef plist, CFPropertyListFormat format);

/* Returns true if the object graph rooted at plist is a valid property list
 * graph -- that is, no cycles, containing only plist objects, and dictionary
 * keys are strings. The debugging library version spits out some messages
 * to be helpful. The plist structure which is to be allowed is given by
 * the format parameter. */

CF_EXPORT
CFIndex CFPropertyListWriteToStream(CFPropertyListRef propertyList, CFWriteStreamRef stream, CFPropertyListFormat format, CFStringRef *errorString);

/* Writes the bytes of a plist serialization out to the stream.  The
 * stream must be opened and configured -- the function simply writes
 * a bunch of bytes to the stream. The output plist format can be chosen.
 * Leaves the stream open, but note that reading a plist expects the
 * reading stream to end wherever the writing ended, so that the
 * end of the plist data can be identified. Returns the number of bytes
 * written, or 0 on error. Error messages are not currently localized, but
 * may be in the future, so they are not suitable for comparison. */

CF_EXPORT
CFPropertyListRef CFPropertyListCreateFromStream(CFAllocatorRef allocator, CFReadStreamRef stream, CFIndex streamLength, CFOptionFlags mutabilityOption, CFPropertyListFormat *format, CFStringRef *errorString);

/* Same as current function CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData()
 * but takes a stream instead of data, and works on any plist file format.
 * CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData() also works on any plist file format.
 * The stream must be open and configured -- the function simply reads a bunch
 * of bytes from it starting at the current location in the stream, to the END
 * of the stream, which is expected to be the end of the plist, or up to the
 * number of bytes given by the length parameter if it is not 0. Error messages
 * are not currently localized, but may be in the future, so they are not
 * suitable for comparison. */

#endif

CF_EXTERN_C_END

#endif /* ! __COREFOUNDATION_CFPROPERTYLIST__ */