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.