* parser now accepts strings or anything that responds to #read

3 files changed, 23 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index ea80aed..3a0fff4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 = plist - All-purpose Property List manipulation library
 
+2007-02-22 (r81):
+ * make the plist parser accept strings contain XML or any object that responds to #read (File and StringIO being the intended targets here).  Test and idea contributed by Chuck Remes.
+
 2006-09-20 (r80):
  * tweak a comment in generator.rb to make it clear that we're not using Base64.b64encode because it's broken.
 
diff --git a/lib/plist/parser.rb b/lib/plist/parser.rb
index 7d1de9f..e0623ae 100644
--- a/lib/plist/parser.rb
+++ b/lib/plist/parser.rb
@@ -59,8 +59,15 @@ module Plist
   end
 
   class StreamParser
-    def initialize( filename_or_xml, listener )
-      @filename_or_xml = filename_or_xml
+    def initialize( plist_data_or_file, listener )
+      if plist_data_or_file.respond_to? :read
+        @xml = plist_data_or_file.read
+      elsif File.exists? plist_data_or_file
+        @xml = File.read( plist_data_or_file )
+      else
+        @xml = plist_data_or_file
+      end
+
       @listener = listener
     end
 
@@ -78,15 +85,7 @@ module Plist
 
       require 'strscan'
 
-      contents = (
-        if (File.exists? @filename_or_xml)
-          File.open(@filename_or_xml) {|f| f.read}
-        else
-          @filename_or_xml
-        end
-      )
-
-      @scanner = StringScanner.new( contents )
+      @scanner = StringScanner.new( @xml )
       until @scanner.eos?
         if @scanner.scan(COMMENT_START)
           @scanner.scan(COMMENT_END)
diff --git a/test/test_parser.rb b/test/test_parser.rb
index e3f8cdb..b6313c0 100644
--- a/test/test_parser.rb
+++ b/test/test_parser.rb
@@ -85,6 +85,16 @@ class TestParser < Test::Unit::TestCase
       assert_nil( Plist::parse_xml( File.read('test/assets/commented.plist') ) )
     end
   end
+
+  def test_filename_or_xml_is_stringio
+    require 'stringio'
+
+    str = StringIO.new
+    data = Plist::parse_xml(str)
+
+    assert_nil data
+  end
+
 end
 
 __END__