package File::MimeInfo::Applications; use strict; use Carp; use File::Spec; use File::BaseDir qw/xdg_data_home xdg_data_dirs xdg_data_files/; use File::MimeInfo qw/mimetype_canon mimetype_isa/; use File::DesktopEntry; require Exporter; our $VERSION = '0.03'; our @ISA = qw(Exporter); our @EXPORT = qw(mime_applications mime_applications_all mime_applications_set_default); print STDERR << 'EOT' unless xdg_data_files(qw/applications mimeinfo.cache/); WARNING: You don't seem to have any mimeinfo.cache files. Try running the update-desktop-database command. If you don't have this command you should install the desktop-file-utils package. This package is available from http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fdesktop_2dfile_2dutils EOT sub mime_applications { croak "usage: mime_applications(MIMETYPE)" unless @_ == 1; my $mime = mimetype_canon(shift @_); local $Carp::CarpLevel = $Carp::CarpLevel + 1; return wantarray ? (_default($mime), _others($mime)) : _default($mime); } sub mime_applications_all { croak "usage: mime_applications(MIMETYPE)" unless @_ == 1; my $mime = shift; return mime_applications($mime), grep defined($_), map mime_applications($_), mimetype_isa($mime); } sub mime_applications_set_default { croak "usage: mime_applications_set_default(MIMETYPE, APPLICATION)" unless @_ == 2; my ($mimetype, $desktop_file) = @_; (undef, undef, $desktop_file) = File::Spec->splitpath($desktop_file->{file}) if ref $desktop_file; croak "missing desktop entry filename for application" unless length $desktop_file; $desktop_file .= '.desktop' unless $desktop_file =~ /\.desktop$/; my $file = File::Spec->catfile(xdg_data_home(), qw/applications defaults.list/); my $text; if (-f $file) { open LIST, '<', $file or croak "Could not read file: $file"; while () { $text .= $_ unless /^$mimetype=/; } close LIST; $text =~ s/[\n\r]?$/\n/; # just to be sure } else { _mkdir($file); $text = "[Default Applications]\n"; } open LIST, '>', $file or croak "Could not write file: $file"; print LIST $text; print LIST "$mimetype=$desktop_file;\n"; close LIST or croak "Could not write file: $file"; } sub _default { my $mimetype = shift; my $file = File::Spec->catfile(xdg_data_home(), qw/applications defaults.list/); return undef unless -f $file && -r _; $Carp::CarpLevel++; my @list = _read_list($mimetype, $file); my $desktop_file = _find_file(reverse @list); $Carp::CarpLevel--; return $desktop_file; } sub _others { my $mimetype = shift; $Carp::CarpLevel++; my (@list, @done); for my $dir ( map File::Spec->catdir($_, 'applications'), xdg_data_home(), xdg_data_dirs() ) { my $cache = File::Spec->catfile($dir, 'mimeinfo.cache'); next if grep {$_ eq $cache} @done; push @done, $cache; next unless -f $cache and -r _; for (_read_list($mimetype, $cache)) { my $file = File::Spec->catfile($dir, $_); next unless -f $file and -r _; push @list, File::DesktopEntry->new_from_file($file); } } $Carp::CarpLevel--; return @list; } sub _read_list { # read list with "mime/type=foo.desktop;bar.desktop" format my ($mimetype, $file) = @_; my @list; open LIST, '<', $file or croak "Could not read file: $file"; while () { /^$mimetype=(.*)$/ or next; push @list, grep defined($_), split ';', $1; } close LIST; return @list; } sub _find_file { my @list = shift; for (@list) { for (xdg_data_files('applications', $_)) { next unless -f $_ and -r _; return File::DesktopEntry->new_from_file($_); } } return undef; } sub _mkdir { my $dir = shift; return if -d $dir; my ($vol, $dirs, undef) = File::Spec->splitpath($dir); my @dirs = File::Spec->splitdir($dirs); my $path = File::Spec->catpath($vol, shift @dirs); while (@dirs) { mkdir $path; # fails silently $path = File::Spec->catdir($path, shift @dirs); } die "Could not create dir: $path\n" unless -d $path; } 1; __END__ =head1 NAME File::MimeInfo::Applications - Find programs to open a file by mimetype =head1 SYNOPSIS use File::MimeInfo::Magic; use File::MimeInfo::Applications; my $file = '/foo/bar'; my $mimetype = mimetype($file) || die "Could not find mimetype for $file\n"; my ($default, @other) = mime_applications($mimetype); if (defined $default) { $default->system($file) } else { # prompt user with choice from @others # ... } =head1 DESCRIPTION This module tries to find applications that can open files with a certain mimetype. This is done in the way suggested by the freedesktop Desktop Entry specification. This module is intended to be compatible with file managers and other applications that implement this specification. This module depends on L being installed. To use this module effectively you need to have the desktop-file-utils package from freedesktop and run update-desktop-database after installing new .desktop files. See L. At the moment of writing this module is compatible with the way nautilus (Gnome) handles mimetypes and with thunar. I understand KDE is still working on implementing the freedesktop mime specifications but will follow. At the very least all perl applications using this module are using the same defaults. =head1 EXPORT All methods are exported by default. =head1 METHODS =over 4 =item C Returns an array of L objects. The first is the default application for this mimetype, the rest are applications that say they can handle this mimetype. If the first result is undefined there is no default application and it is good practise to ask the user which application he wants to use. =item C Like C but also takes into account applications that can open mimetypes from which MIMETYPE inherits. Parent mimetypes tell aomething about the data format, all code inherits from text/plain for example. =item C Save a default application for this mimetype. This action will affect other applications using the same mechanism to find a default appliction. APPLICATION can either be a File::DesktopEntry object or the basename of a .desktop file. =back =head1 NOTES At present the file with defaults is F<$XDG_DATA_HOME/applications/defaults.list>. This file is not specified in any spec and if it gets standardized it should probably be located in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME. For this module I tried to implement the status quo. =head1 BUGS Please mail the author when you encounter any bugs. =head1 AUTHOR Jaap Karssenberg || Pardus [Larus] Epardus@cpan.orgE Copyright (c) 2005 Jaap G Karssenberg. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. =head1 SEE ALSO L, L, L, L L =cut