Soup.ContentSniffer

Subclasses:

None

Methods

Inherited:

GObject.Object (37), Soup.SessionFeature (5)

Structs:

GObject.ObjectClass (5)

class	new ()
	get_buffer_size ()
	sniff (msg, buffer)

Virtual Methods

Inherited:

GObject.Object (7), Soup.SessionFeature (8)

	do_get_buffer_size ()
	do_sniff (msg, buffer)

Properties

None

Signals

Inherited:

GObject.Object (1)

Fields

Inherited:

GObject.Object (1)

Name	Type	Access	Description
parent	GObject.Object	r

Class Details

class Soup.ContentSniffer(**kwargs)

Bases:

GObject.Object, Soup.SessionFeature

Abstract:

No

Structure:

Soup.ContentSnifferClass

classmethod new()

Returns:

a new Soup.ContentSniffer

Return type:

Soup.ContentSniffer

Creates a new Soup.ContentSniffer.

New in version 2.28.

get_buffer_size()

Returns:

the number of bytes to sniff

Return type:

int

Gets the number of bytes self needs in order to properly sniff a buffer.

New in version 2.28.

sniff(msg, buffer)

Parameters:

• msg (Soup.Message) – the message to sniff

• buffer (Soup.Buffer) – a buffer containing the start of msg's response body

Returns:

the sniffed Content-Type of buffer; this will never be None, but may be “application/octet-stream”.

params:

return location for Content-Type parameters (eg, “charset”), or None

Return type:

(str, params: {str: str})

Sniffs buffer to determine its Content-Type. The result may also be influenced by the Content-Type declared in msg's response headers.

New in version 2.28.

do_get_buffer_size() virtual

Returns:

the number of bytes to sniff

Return type:

int

Gets the number of bytes sniffer needs in order to properly sniff a buffer.

New in version 2.28.

do_sniff(msg, buffer) virtual

Parameters:

• msg (Soup.Message) – the message to sniff

• buffer (Soup.Buffer) – a buffer containing the start of msg's response body

Returns:

the sniffed Content-Type of buffer; this will never be None, but may be “application/octet-stream”.

params:

return location for Content-Type parameters (eg, “charset”), or None

Return type:

(str, params: {str: str})

Sniffs buffer to determine its Content-Type. The result may also be influenced by the Content-Type declared in msg's response headers.

New in version 2.28.