Palate

File type detection combining the best of tft and hyperpolyglot.

Acknowledgments

This project is a reassembly of code from several excellent projects:

• tft - Tree-sitter File Type, providing fast file type detection using tree-sitter grammars
• Neovim - The original source of filetype detection heuristics and patterns
• hyperpolyglot - Language detection library with comprehensive language patterns

This crate essentially combines and curates the detection logic from these sources into a unified, ergonomic API.

License

GPL-3.0-or-later

This project is derived from tft (GPL-3.0-or-later), which itself incorporates code from Neovim (Apache-2.0/Vim license). As a derivative of GPL-3.0 work, this project is licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later.

Features

• Comprehensive file type detection
• Fast PHF-based lookups
• Content-based detection with heuristics
• Shebang interpretation support
• Naive Bayes classifier fallback (with classifier feature)

Usage

use palate::{detect, FileType};

// Detect file type with fallback to Text
let ft = detect("main.rs", "");
assert_eq!(FileType::Rust, ft);

// Try detection without fallback
let ft = palate::try_detect("unknown.xyz", "");
assert_eq!(None, ft);

Detection Pipeline

1. Path suffix matching
2. Filename matching
3. Pattern matching (with priorities)
4. File extension matching (PHF map)
5. Negative priority patterns
6. Content-based detection (dynamic resolvers)

Features

• detect (default): Enable file type detection
• classifier: Enable naive Bayes classifier
• serde: Enable serde serialization for FileType