NAME

Mac::PropertyList::ReadBinary - read binary property list files

SYNOPSIS

            

              
              
# use directly
use Mac::PropertyList::ReadBinary;
my $parser = Mac::PropertyList::ReadBinary->new( $file );
my $plist = $parser->plist;
# use indirectly, automatically selects right reader
use Mac::PropertyList;
my $plist = parse_plist_file( $file );
            
          

DESCRIPTION

This module is a low-level interface to the Mac OS X Property List (plist) format. You probably shouldn't use this in applications—build interfaces on top of this so you don't have to put all the heinous multi-level object stuff where people have to look at it.

You can parse a plist file and get back a data structure. You can take that data structure and get back the plist as XML (but not binary yet). If you want to change the structure inbetween that's your business. :)

See Mac::PropertyList for more details.

Methods

new( FILENAME | SCALAR_REF | FILEHANDLE )

Opens the data source, doing the right thing for filenames, scalar references, or a filehandle.

plist

Returns the Mac::PropertyList data structure.

SEE ALSO

Some of the ideas are cribbed from CFBinaryPList.c

            

              
              
http://opensource.apple.com/source/CF/CF-550/CFBinaryPList.c
            
          

SOURCE AVAILABILITY

This project is in Github:

            

              
              
https://github.com/briandfoy/mac-propertylist.git
            
          

CREDITS

AUTHOR

brian d foy, <briandfoy@pobox.com>

Tom Wyant added support for UID types.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright © 2004-2024, brian d foy <briandfoy@pobox.com>. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License 2.0.