Issue #14455: plistlib now supports binary plists and has an updated API.

This patch adds support for binary plists on OSX to plistlib (based
on a patch by 'dpounces').

The patch also cleans up the API for the plistlib module.

Mac/Tools/plistlib_generate_testdata.py

@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+from Cocoa import NSMutableDictionary, NSMutableArray, NSString, NSDate
+from Cocoa import NSPropertyListSerialization, NSPropertyListOpenStepFormat
+from Cocoa import NSPropertyListXMLFormat_v1_0, NSPropertyListBinaryFormat_v1_0
+from Cocoa import CFUUIDCreateFromString, NSNull, NSUUID, CFPropertyListCreateData
+from Cocoa import NSURL
+
+import datetime
+from collections import OrderedDict
+import binascii
+
+FORMATS=[
+#    ('openstep', NSPropertyListOpenStepFormat),
+    ('plistlib.FMT_XML', NSPropertyListXMLFormat_v1_0),
+    ('plistlib.FMT_BINARY', NSPropertyListBinaryFormat_v1_0),
+]
+
+def nsstr(value):
+    return NSString.alloc().initWithString_(value)
+
+
+def main():
+    pl = OrderedDict()
+
+    seconds = datetime.datetime(2004, 10, 26, 10, 33, 33, tzinfo=datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(0))).timestamp()
+    pl[nsstr('aDate')] = NSDate.dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970_(seconds)
+
+    pl[nsstr('aDict')] = d = OrderedDict()
+    d[nsstr('aFalseValue')] = False
+    d[nsstr('aTrueValue')] = True
+    d[nsstr('aUnicodeValue')] = "M\xe4ssig, Ma\xdf"
+    d[nsstr('anotherString')] = "<hello & 'hi' there!>"
+    d[nsstr('deeperDict')] = dd = OrderedDict()
+    dd[nsstr('a')] = 17
+    dd[nsstr('b')] = 32.5
+    dd[nsstr('c')] = a = NSMutableArray.alloc().init()
+    a.append(1)
+    a.append(2)
+    a.append(nsstr('text'))
+
+    pl[nsstr('aFloat')] = 0.5
+
+    pl[nsstr('aList')] = a = NSMutableArray.alloc().init()
+    a.append(nsstr('A'))
+    a.append(nsstr('B'))
+    a.append(12)
+    a.append(32.5)
+    aa = NSMutableArray.alloc().init()
+    a.append(aa)
+    aa.append(1)
+    aa.append(2)
+    aa.append(3)
+
+    pl[nsstr('aString')] = nsstr('Doodah')
+
+    pl[nsstr('anEmptyDict')] = NSMutableDictionary.alloc().init()
+
+    pl[nsstr('anEmptyList')] = NSMutableArray.alloc().init()
+
+    pl[nsstr('anInt')] = 728
+
+    pl[nsstr('nestedData')] = a = NSMutableArray.alloc().init()
+    a.append(b'''<lots of binary gunk>\x00\x01\x02\x03<lots of binary gunk>\x00\x01\x02\x03<lots of binary gunk>\x00\x01\x02\x03<lots of binary gunk>\x00\x01\x02\x03<lots of binary gunk>\x00\x01\x02\x03<lots of binary gunk>\x00\x01\x02\x03<lots of binary gunk>\x00\x01\x02\x03<lots of binary gunk>\x00\x01\x02\x03<lots of binary gunk>\x00\x01\x02\x03<lots of binary gunk>\x00\x01\x02\x03''')
+
+
+    pl[nsstr('someData')] = b'<binary gunk>'
+
+    pl[nsstr('someMoreData')] = b'''<lots of binary gunk>\x00\x01\x02\x03<lots of binary gunk>\x00\x01\x02\x03<lots of binary gunk>\x00\x01\x02\x03<lots of binary gunk>\x00\x01\x02\x03<lots of binary gunk>\x00\x01\x02\x03<lots of binary gunk>\x00\x01\x02\x03<lots of binary gunk>\x00\x01\x02\x03<lots of binary gunk>\x00\x01\x02\x03<lots of binary gunk>\x00\x01\x02\x03<lots of binary gunk>\x00\x01\x02\x03'''
+
+    pl[nsstr('\xc5benraa')] = nsstr("That was a unicode key.")
+
+    print("TESTDATA={")
+    for fmt_name, fmt_key in FORMATS:
+        data, error = NSPropertyListSerialization.dataWithPropertyList_format_options_error_(
+            pl, fmt_key, 0, None)
+        if data is None:
+            print("Cannot serialize", fmt_name, error)
+
+        else:
+            print("    %s: binascii.a2b_base64(b'''\n        %s'''),"%(fmt_name, _encode_base64(bytes(data)).decode('ascii')[:-1]))
+
+    print("}")
+    print()
+
+def _encode_base64(s, maxlinelength=60):
+    maxbinsize = (maxlinelength//4)*3
+    pieces = []
+    for i in range(0, len(s), maxbinsize):
+        chunk = s[i : i + maxbinsize]
+        pieces.append(binascii.b2a_base64(chunk))
+    return b'        '.join(pieces)
+
+main()