yabko

This library is not under active maintenance; if you'd like to perform maintenance yourself, feel free to open an issue requesting access.

yabko is an Erlang parser of Apple Property Lists (.plist)

Decodable data types

• boolean
• null (binary format)
• integer
• real
• date
• uid
• binary data
• latin1 text (binary format)
• utf16 text (binary format)
• utf8 text (XML format)
• arrays
• sets (binary format; untested)
• dictionaries

Example Usage

$ make console

% 1> {ok, XmlEncoded} = file:read_file("test_data/doc_example.xml").
{ok,<<"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE plist "...>>}

% 2> yabko:decode(XmlEncoded).
{ok,#{<<"Codswallop ratio">> => 3.14159265359,
      <<"Date of birth">> => {{1973,2,12},{9,18,0}},
      <<"Name">> => <<"John Doé"/utf8>>,
      <<"Owned foobars">> => 4321,
      <<"Pocket contents">> =>
          [42,<<"Lorem ipsum">>,{uid,123456}]}}

% 3> {ok, BinEncoded} = file:read_file("test_data/float32.bin.plist").
{ok,<<98,112,108,105,115,116,48,48,209,1,2,89,101,116,99,
      32,101,116,99,46,46,34,63,128,0,0,8,...>>}

% 4> yabko:decode(BinEncoded)
{ok,#{<<"etc etc..">> => 1.0}}

Yabko is an independent project and has not been authorized, sponsored, or otherwise approved by Apple Inc.