3 This module provides basic functions for handling mime-types. It can handle
4 matching mime-types against a list of media-ranges. See section 14.1 of
5 the HTTP specification [RFC 2616] for a complete explaination.
7 http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.1
10 - parse_mime_type(): Parses a mime-type into it's component parts.
11 - parse_media_range(): Media-ranges are mime-types with wild-cards and a 'q' quality parameter.
12 - quality(): Determines the quality ('q') of a mime-type when compared against a list of media-ranges.
13 - quality_parsed(): Just like quality() except the second parameter must be pre-parsed.
14 - best_match(): Choose the mime-type with the highest quality ('q') from a list of candidates.
18 __author__
= 'Joe Gregorio'
19 __email__
= "joe@bitworking.org"
22 def parse_mime_type(mime_type
):
23 """Carves up a mime_type and returns a tuple of the
24 (type, subtype, params) where 'params' is a dictionary
25 of all the parameters for the media range.
26 For example, the media range 'application/xhtml;q=0.5' would
29 ('application', 'xhtml', {'q', '0.5'})
31 parts
= mime_type
.split(";")
32 params
= dict([tuple([s
.strip() for s
in param
.split("=")])\
33 for param
in parts
[1:] ])
34 (type, subtype
) = parts
[0].split("/")
35 return (type.strip(), subtype
.strip(), params
)
37 def parse_media_range(range):
38 """Carves up a media range and returns a tuple of the
39 (type, subtype, params) where 'params' is a dictionary
40 of all the parameters for the media range.
41 For example, the media range 'application/*;q=0.5' would
44 ('application', '*', {'q', '0.5'})
46 In addition this function also guarantees that there
47 is a value for 'q' in the params dictionary, filling it
48 in with a proper default if necessary.
50 (type, subtype
, params
) = parse_mime_type(range)
51 if not params
.has_key('q') or not params
['q'] or \
52 not float(params
['q']) or float(params
['q']) > 1\
53 or float(params
['q']) < 0:
55 return (type, subtype
, params
)
57 def quality_parsed(mime_type
, parsed_ranges
):
58 """Find the best match for a given mime_type against
59 a list of media_ranges that have already been
60 parsed by parse_media_range(). Returns the
61 'q' quality parameter of the best match, 0 if no
62 match was found. This function bahaves the same as quality()
63 except that 'parsed_ranges' must be a list of
64 parsed media ranges. """
68 (target_type
, target_subtype
, target_params
) =\
69 parse_media_range(mime_type
)
70 for (type, subtype
, params
) in parsed_ranges
:
71 param_matches
= reduce(lambda x
, y
: x
+y
, [1 for (key
, value
) in \
72 target_params
.iteritems() if key
!= 'q' and \
73 params
.has_key(key
) and value
== params
[key
]], 0)
74 if (type == target_type
or type == '*' or target_type
== '*') and \
75 (subtype
== target_subtype
or subtype
== '*' or target_subtype
== '*'):
76 fitness
= (type == target_type
) and 100 or 0
77 fitness
+= (subtype
== target_subtype
) and 10 or 0
78 fitness
+= param_matches
79 if fitness
> best_fitness
:
80 best_fitness
= fitness
81 best_fit_q
= params
['q']
83 return float(best_fit_q
)
85 def quality(mime_type
, ranges
):
86 """Returns the quality 'q' of a mime_type when compared
87 against the media-ranges in ranges. For example:
89 >>> quality('text/html','text/*;q=0.3, text/html;q=0.7, text/html;level=1, text/html;level=2;q=0.4, */*;q=0.5')
93 parsed_ranges
= [parse_media_range(r
) for r
in ranges
.split(",")]
94 return quality_parsed(mime_type
, parsed_ranges
)
96 def best_match(supported
, header
):
97 """Takes a list of supported mime-types and finds the best
98 match for all the media-ranges listed in header. The value of
99 header must be a string that conforms to the format of the
100 HTTP Accept: header. The value of 'supported' is a list of
103 >>> best_match(['application/xbel+xml', 'text/xml'], 'text/*;q=0.5,*/*; q=0.1')
106 parsed_header
= [parse_media_range(r
) for r
in header
.split(",")]
107 weighted_matches
= [(quality_parsed(mime_type
, parsed_header
), mime_type
)\
108 for mime_type
in supported
]
109 weighted_matches
.sort()
110 return weighted_matches
[-1][0] and weighted_matches
[-1][1] or ''
112 if __name__
== "__main__":
115 class TestMimeParsing(unittest
.TestCase
):
117 def test_parse_media_range(self
):
118 self
.assert_(('application', 'xml', {'q': '1'}) == parse_media_range('application/xml;q=1'))
119 self
.assertEqual(('application', 'xml', {'q': '1'}), parse_media_range('application/xml'))
120 self
.assertEqual(('application', 'xml', {'q': '1'}), parse_media_range('application/xml;q='))
121 self
.assertEqual(('application', 'xml', {'q': '1'}), parse_media_range('application/xml ; q='))
122 self
.assertEqual(('application', 'xml', {'q': '1', 'b': 'other'}), parse_media_range('application/xml ; q=1;b=other'))
123 self
.assertEqual(('application', 'xml', {'q': '1', 'b': 'other'}), parse_media_range('application/xml ; q=2;b=other'))
125 def test_rfc_2616_example(self
):
126 accept
= "text/*;q=0.3, text/html;q=0.7, text/html;level=1, text/html;level=2;q=0.4, */*;q=0.5"
127 self
.assertEqual(1, quality("text/html;level=1", accept
))
128 self
.assertEqual(0.7, quality("text/html", accept
))
129 self
.assertEqual(0.3, quality("text/plain", accept
))
130 self
.assertEqual(0.5, quality("image/jpeg", accept
))
131 self
.assertEqual(0.4, quality("text/html;level=2", accept
))
132 self
.assertEqual(0.7, quality("text/html;level=3", accept
))
134 def test_best_match(self
):
135 mime_types_supported
= ['application/xbel+xml', 'application/xml']
137 self
.assertEqual(best_match(mime_types_supported
, 'application/xbel+xml'), 'application/xbel+xml')
138 # direct match with a q parameter
139 self
.assertEqual(best_match(mime_types_supported
, 'application/xbel+xml; q=1'), 'application/xbel+xml')
140 # direct match of our second choice with a q parameter
141 self
.assertEqual(best_match(mime_types_supported
, 'application/xml; q=1'), 'application/xml')
142 # match using a subtype wildcard
143 self
.assertEqual(best_match(mime_types_supported
, 'application/*; q=1'), 'application/xml')
144 # match using a type wildcard
145 self
.assertEqual(best_match(mime_types_supported
, '*/*'), 'application/xml')
147 mime_types_supported
= ['application/xbel+xml', 'text/xml']
148 # match using a type versus a lower weighted subtype
149 self
.assertEqual(best_match(mime_types_supported
, 'text/*;q=0.5,*/*; q=0.1'), 'text/xml')
150 # fail to match anything
151 self
.assertEqual(best_match(mime_types_supported
, 'text/html,application/atom+xml; q=0.9'), '')
153 def test_support_wildcards(self
):
154 mime_types_supported
= ['image/*', 'application/xml']
155 # match using a type wildcard
156 self
.assertEqual(best_match(mime_types_supported
, 'image/png'), 'image/*')
157 # match using a wildcard for both requested and supported
158 self
.assertEqual(best_match(mime_types_supported
, 'image/*'), 'image/*')