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1 //
2 // XdgMime.cs
3 //
4 // Copyright (C) 2006 Debajyoti Bera
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28 using System;
29 using System.IO;
30 using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
31 using System.Text;
33 namespace Beagle.Util {
34 public class XdgMime {
36 [DllImport ("libbeagleglue")]
37 static extern IntPtr xdg_mime_get_mime_type_for_file (string file_path, IntPtr optional_stat_info);
39 public static string GetMimeType (string file_path)
41 string mime_type = Marshal.PtrToStringAnsi (xdg_mime_get_mime_type_for_file (file_path, (IntPtr) null));
43 if (mime_type != "application/octet-stream")
44 return mime_type;
46 // xdgmime recognizes most files without extensions as
47 // application/octet-stream. Check the first 256 bytes
48 // to see if it's really plain text.
49 if (ValidateUTF8 (file_path))
50 return "text/plain";
51 else
52 return mime_type;
55 private static UTF8Encoding validating_encoding = new UTF8Encoding (true, true);
57 private static bool ValidateUTF8 (string file_path)
59 FileStream fs;
61 try {
62 fs = new FileStream (file_path, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read);
63 } catch (IOException) {
64 return false;
67 byte[] byte_buf = new byte [256];
68 char[] char_buf = new char [256];
70 int buf_length = fs.Read (byte_buf, 0, 256);
72 fs.Close ();
74 if (buf_length == 0)
75 return false; // Don't treat empty files as text/plain
77 Decoder d = validating_encoding.GetDecoder ();
79 try {
80 d.GetChars (byte_buf, 0, buf_length, char_buf, 0);
82 // FIXME: UTF8 allows control characters in a file.
83 // Should we allow control characters in a text file?
84 } catch (ArgumentException ex) {
85 return false;
88 return true;