[Libguestfs] [PATCH 1/5] mllib: Enhance and rename 'detect_compression' function so it can detect a few more file types.

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Sat Oct 18 21:05:07 UTC 2014


---
 builder/builder.ml     |  6 +++++-
 mllib/common_utils.ml  | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++---------
 mllib/common_utils.mli |  6 ++----
 3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builder/builder.ml b/builder/builder.ml
index 5195cfd..121c5fb 100644
--- a/builder/builder.ml
+++ b/builder/builder.ml
@@ -315,8 +315,12 @@ let main () =
       | None -> []
       | Some format -> [`Format, format] in
     let compression_tag =
-      match detect_compression template with
+      match detect_file_type template with
       | `XZ -> [ `XZ, "" ]
+      | `GZip | `Tar | `Zip ->
+        eprintf (f_"%s: input file (%s) has an unsupported type\n")
+          prog template;
+        exit 1
       | `Unknown -> [] in
     [ `Template, ""; `Filename, template; `Size, Int64.to_string size ] @
       format_tag @ compression_tag in
diff --git a/mllib/common_utils.ml b/mllib/common_utils.ml
index adfad3f..295981c 100644
--- a/mllib/common_utils.ml
+++ b/mllib/common_utils.ml
@@ -547,17 +547,28 @@ let rm_rf_only_files (g : Guestfs.guestfs) dir =
     List.iter g#rm files
   )
 
-(* Detect compression of a file.
- *
- * Only detects the formats we need in virt-builder so far.
- *)
-let detect_compression filename =
+(* Detect type of a file. *)
+let detect_file_type filename =
   let chan = open_in filename in
-  let buf = String.create 6 in
-  really_input chan buf 0 6;
+  let get start size =
+    try
+      seek_in chan start;
+      let buf = String.create size in
+      really_input chan buf 0 size;
+      Some buf
+    with End_of_file | Invalid_argument _ -> None
+  in
+  let ret =
+    if get 0 6 = Some "\2537zXZ\000" then `XZ
+    else if get 0 4 = Some "PK\003\004" then `Zip
+    else if get 0 4 = Some "PK\005\006" then `Zip
+    else if get 0 4 = Some "PK\007\008" then `Zip
+    else if get 257 6 = Some "ustar\000" then `Tar
+    else if get 257 8 = Some "ustar\x20\x20\000" then `Tar
+    else if get 0 2 = Some "\x1f\x8b" then `GZip
+    else `Unknown in
   close_in chan;
-  if buf = "\2537zXZ\000" then `XZ
-  else `Unknown
+  ret
 
 let is_block_device file =
   try (Unix.stat file).Unix.st_kind = Unix.S_BLK
diff --git a/mllib/common_utils.mli b/mllib/common_utils.mli
index d78fd70..112648a 100644
--- a/mllib/common_utils.mli
+++ b/mllib/common_utils.mli
@@ -118,10 +118,8 @@ val rm_rf_only_files : Guestfs.guestfs -> string -> unit
 
     XXX Could be faster with a specific API for doing this. *)
 
-val detect_compression : string -> [`Unknown | `XZ]
-(** Detect compression of a file.
-
-    XXX Only detects the formats we need in virt-builder so far. *)
+val detect_file_type : string -> [`GZip | `Tar | `XZ | `Zip | `Unknown]
+(** Detect type of a file. *)
 
 val is_block_device : string -> bool
 val is_char_device : string -> bool
-- 
2.0.4




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