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wooster
commented on August 19, 2024
@paulr4 Any chance you could attach the plist as a file here?
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paulr4
commented on August 19, 2024
Sure, here:
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wooster
commented on August 19, 2024
Oh. That file looks like it was printed in a Python interactive session. Those sequences like "\xae" are replacing the actual binary contents.
Do you have the original file generated by the program?
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paulr4
commented on August 19, 2024
No, sorry, it was embedded in an SQLite file and I read it directly into Python variable from there. I wrote it to a file using plistfile.write(str(plist)), I guess that was my mistake. What should I have done?
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paulr4
commented on August 19, 2024
I think I've got it - open the output file in binary mode ('wb') and write using bytes():
plistfile = open('tempfile','wb')
plistfile.write(bytes(plist))
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paulr4
commented on August 19, 2024
Unfortunately I still can't get anything useful out of the file.
I've tried every combination of BinaryPlist, readPlist, and Parse I can think of, trying to adapt the examples given here, but no luck so far sadly.
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wooster
commented on August 19, 2024
Google's binplist project isn't the same as my biplist project.
If you're reading from a file on the filesystem, you can do something like:
>>> import biplist
>>> biplist.readPlist("/Users/andrew/Downloads/plistfile_new.plist")
{'$objects': ['$null', {'NS.keys': [Uid(2), Uid(4), Uid(6), Uid(8)], 'NS.objects': [Uid(10), Uid(12), Uid(14), Uid(16)], '$class': Uid(18)}, {'$class': Uid(3), 'NS.string': 'fullname'}, {'$classes': ['NSString', 'NSObject'], '$classname': 'NSString'}, {'$class': Uid(5), 'NS.string': 'address'}, {'$classes': ['NSString', 'NSObject'], '$classname': 'NSString'}, {'$class': Uid(7), 'NS.string': 'phone'}, {'$classes': ['NSString', 'NSObject'], '$classname': 'NSString'}, {'$class': Uid(9), 'NS.string': 'email'}, {'$classes': ['NSString', 'NSObject'], '$classname': 'NSString'}, {'$class': Uid(11), 'NS.string': 'Test Client'}, {'$classes': ['NSString', 'NSObject'], '$classname': 'NSString'}, {'$class': Uid(13), 'NS.string': '123 ABC Street'}, {'$classes': ['NSString', 'NSObject'], '$classname': 'NSString'}, {'$class': Uid(15), 'NS.string': '1234'}, {'$classes': ['NSString', 'NSObject'], '$classname': 'NSString'}, {'$class': Uid(17), 'NS.string': '[email protected]'}, {'$classes': ['NSString', 'NSObject'], '$classname': 'NSString'}, {'$classes': ['NSDictionary', 'NSObject'], '$classname': 'NSDictionary'}], '$archiver': 'NSKeyedArchiver', '$version': 100000, '$top': {'root': Uid(1)}}If you're reading from SQLite into a variable, you can use StringIO to turn that variable into a file-like object and read from there:
>>> import StringIO
>>> contents = open("plistfile.plist").read()
>>> file_like_object = StringIO.StringIO(contents)
>>> biplist.readPlist(file_like_object)
{'$objects': ['$null', {'NS.keys': [Uid(2), Uid(4), Uid(6), Uid(8)], 'NS.objects': [Uid(10), Uid(12), Uid(14), Uid(16)], '$class': Uid(18)}, {'$class': Uid(3), 'NS.string': 'fullname'}, {'$classes': ['NSString', 'NSObject'], '$classname': 'NSString'}, {'$class': Uid(5), 'NS.string': 'address'}, {'$classes': ['NSString', 'NSObject'], '$classname': 'NSString'}, {'$class': Uid(7), 'NS.string': 'phone'}, {'$classes': ['NSString', 'NSObject'], '$classname': 'NSString'}, {'$class': Uid(9), 'NS.string': 'email'}, {'$classes': ['NSString', 'NSObject'], '$classname': 'NSString'}, {'$class': Uid(11), 'NS.string': 'Test Client'}, {'$classes': ['NSString', 'NSObject'], '$classname': 'NSString'}, {'$class': Uid(13), 'NS.string': '123 ABC Street'}, {'$classes': ['NSString', 'NSObject'], '$classname': 'NSString'}, {'$class': Uid(15), 'NS.string': '1234'}, {'$classes': ['NSString', 'NSObject'], '$classname': 'NSString'}, {'$class': Uid(17), 'NS.string': '[email protected]'}, {'$classes': ['NSString', 'NSObject'], '$classname': 'NSString'}, {'$classes': ['NSDictionary', 'NSObject'], '$classname': 'NSDictionary'}], '$archiver': 'NSKeyedArchiver', '$version': 100000, '$top': {'root': Uid(1)}}This particular plist is a keyed archive, used by the program to encode an object in memory. The format can be fairly opaque to decode.
If you're on OS X, you can use the Foundation bindings to more easily process the file, eg:
>>> import Foundation
>>> data = Foundation.NSData.dataWithContentsOfFile_("plistfile.plist")
>>> Foundation.NSKeyedUnarchiver.unarchiveObjectWithData_(data)
{
address = "123 ABC Street";
email = "[email protected]";
fullname = "Test Client";
phone = 1234;
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paulr4
commented on August 19, 2024
Thank you for your help! I finally implemented this with the following code, where ClientDetails contains the impenetrable raw plist data:
import io
import biplist
tmp = io.BytesIO()
tmp.write(ClientDetails)
plist = biplist.readPlist(tmp)
tmp.close()
'plist' then contained a complicated nested arrangement of variables, which could at least be rooted through using usual python methods.
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