[][src]Crate tree_magic

tree_magic is a Rust crate that determines the MIME type a given file or byte stream.

About

tree_magic is designed to be more efficient and to have less false positives compared to the old approach used by libmagic, or old-fashioned file extension comparisons.

Instead, this loads all known MIME types into a tree based on subclasses. Then, instead of checking against every file type, tree_magic will traverse down the tree and only check the files that make sense to check.

Features

  • Very fast perfomance (~150ns to check one file against one type, between 5,000ns and 100,000ns to find a MIME type.)
  • Check if a file is a certain type.
  • Handles aliases (ex: application/zip vs application/x-zip-compressed)
  • Can delegate different file types to different "checkers", reducing false positives by choosing a different method of attack.

Feature flags

cli: Enable building of tmagic binary

staticmime: Change output of all from_* functions from String to &'static str. Disables ability to load system magic files. Slightly faster.

Example

extern crate tree_magic;
 
// Load a GIF file
let input: &[u8] = include_bytes!("tests/image/gif");

// Find the MIME type of the GIF
let result = tree_magic::from_u8(input);
assert_eq!(result, "image/gif");

// Check if the MIME and the file are a match
let result = tree_magic::match_u8("image/gif", input);
assert_eq!(result, true);

Structs

TYPE

The TypeStruct autogenerated at library init, and used by the library.

TypeStruct

Information about currently loaded MIME types

Enums

Cache

Cache used for each checker for each file

Functions

from_filepath

Gets the type of a file from a filepath.

from_filepath_node

Gets the type of a file from a filepath, starting at a certain node in the type graph.

from_u8_node

Gets the type of a file from a raw bytestream, starting at a certain node in the type graph.

from_u8

Gets the type of a file from a byte stream.

is_alias

Determines if a MIME is an alias of another MIME

match_filepath

Check if the given filepath matches the given MIME type.

match_u8

Checks if the given bytestream matches the given MIME type.