File::MMagic::XS(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				     File::MMagic::XS(3pm)

NAME

       File::MMagic::XS - Guess File Type With XS (a la mod_mime_magic)

SYNOPSIS

	 use File::MMagic::XS;

	 my $m = File::MMagic::XS->new();
	    $m = File::MMagic::XS->new('/etc/magic'); # use external magic file

	 my $mime = $m->get_mime($file);

	 # use File::MMagic compatible interface
	 use File::MMagic::XS qw(:compat);

	 my $m = File::MMagic::XS->new();
	 $m->checktype_filename($file);

DESCRIPTION

       This is a port of Apache2 mod_mime_magic.c in Perl, written in XS with the aim of being efficient and fast, especially for applications
       that need to be run for an extended amount of time.

       There is a compatibility layer for File::MMagic. you can specify :compat when importing the module

	  use File::MMagic::XS qw(:compat);

       And then the following methods are going to be available from File::MMagic::XS:

	  checktype_filename
	  checktype_filehandle
	  checktype_contents
	  addMagicEntry

       Currently this software is in beta. If you have suggestions/recommendations about the interface or anything else, now is your chance to
       send them!

METHODS

   new(%args)
       Creates a new File::MMagic::XS object.

       If you specify the "file" argument, then File::MMagic::XS will load magic definitions from the specified file. If unspecified, it will use
       the magic file that will be installed under File/MMagic/ directory.

   clone()
       Clones an existing File::MMagic::XS object.

   parse_magic_file($file)
       Read and parse a magic file, as used by Apache2.

   get_mime($file)
       Inspects the file specified by $file and returns a MIME type if possible.  If no matching MIME type is found, then undef is returned.

   fsmagic($file)
       Inspects a file and returns a MIME type using inode information only. The contents of the file is not inspected.

   fhmagic($fh)
       Inspects a file handle and returns a mime string by reading the contents of the file handle.

   ascmagic($file)
       Inspects a piece of data (assuming it's not binary data), and attempts to determine the file type.

   bufmagic($scalar)
       Inspects a scalar buffer, and attempts to determine the file type

   add_magic($magic_line)
       Adds a new magic entry to the object. The format of $magic_line is the same as magic(5) file. This allows you to add custom magic entries
       at run time

   add_file_ext($ext, $mime)
       Adds a new file extension to MIME mapping. This is used as a fallback method to determining MIME types.

	 my $magic = File::MMagic::XS->new;
	 $magic->add_file_ext('t', 'text/perl-test');
	 my $mime  = $magic->get_mime('t/01-sanity.t');

       This will make get_mime() return 'text/perl-test'.

   error()
       Returns the last error string.

PERFORMANCE

       This is on my laptop (MacBook, Core 2 Duo/ Mac OS X 10.4.3), tested against File::MMagic::XS 0.09003

		 Rate  perl    xs
	 perl	513/s	 --  -96%
	 xs   12048/s 2249%    --

SEE ALSO

       File::MMagic

AUTHOR

       Copyright 2005-2007 Daisuke Maki <daisuke@endeworks.jp>.

       Underlying software: Copyright 1999-2004 The Apache Software Foundation, Copyright (c) 1996-1997 Cisco Systems, Inc., Copyright (c) Ian F.
       Darwin, 1987. Written by Ian F. Darwin.

LICENSE

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

       See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html

perl v5.14.2							    2010-05-18						     File::MMagic::XS(3pm)