MIME::Decoder::Base64 - encode/decode a "base64" stream


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NAME

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MIME::Decoder::Base64 - encode/decode a "base64" stream

SYNOPSIS

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A generic decoder object; see MIME::Decoder for usage.

DESCRIPTION

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A MIME::Decoder subclass for the "base64" encoding. The name was chosen to jibe with the pre-existing MIME::Base64 utility package, which this class actually uses to translate each chunk.

SEE ALSO

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MIME::Decoder

AUTHOR

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Eryq (eryq@zeegee.com), ZeeGee Software Inc (http://www.zeegee.com).

All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.


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package MIME::Decoder::Base64;


use vars qw(@ISA $VERSION);
use MIME::Decoder;
use MIME::Base64 2.04;    
use MIME::Tools qw(debug);

@ISA = qw(MIME::Decoder);

### The package version, both in 1.23 style *and* usable by MakeMaker:
$VERSION = "5.502";

### How many bytes to encode at a time (must be a multiple of 3, and
### less than (76 * 0.75)!
my $EncodeChunkLength = 45;

### How many bytes to decode at a time?
my $DecodeChunkLength = 32 * 1024;

#------------------------------
#
# decode_it IN, OUT
#
sub decode_it {
    my ($self, $in, $out) = @_;
    my $len_4xN;
    
    ### Create a suitable buffer:
    my $buffer = ' ' x (120 + $DecodeChunkLength); $buffer = '';
    debug "in = $in; out = $out";

    ### Get chunks until done:
    local($_) = ' ' x $DecodeChunkLength;    
    while ($in->read($_, $DecodeChunkLength)) {
	tr{A-Za-z0-9+/}{}cd;         ### get rid of non-base64 chars

	### Concat any new input onto any leftover from the last round:
	$buffer .= $_;
	length($buffer) >= $DecodeChunkLength or next;
	
    	### Extract substring with highest multiple of 4 bytes:
	###   0 means not enough to work with... get more data!
	$len_4xN = length($buffer) & ~3; 

	### Partition into largest-multiple-of-4 (which we decode),
	### and the remainder (which gets handled next time around):
	$out->print(decode_base64(substr($buffer, 0, $len_4xN)));
	$buffer = substr($buffer, $len_4xN);
    }
    
    ### No more input remains.  Dispose of anything left in buffer:
    if (length($buffer)) {

	### Pad to 4-byte multiple, and decode:
	$buffer .= "===";            ### need no more than 3 pad chars
	$len_4xN = length($buffer) & ~3; 	

	### Decode it!
	$out->print(decode_base64(substr($buffer, 0, $len_4xN)));
    }
    1;
}

#------------------------------
#
# encode_it IN, OUT
#
sub encode_it {
    my ($self, $in, $out) = @_;
    my $encoded;

    my $nread;
    my $buf = '';
    while ($nread = $in->read($buf, $EncodeChunkLength)) {
	$encoded = encode_base64($buf);
	$encoded .= "\n" unless ($encoded =~ /\n\Z/);   ### ensure newline!
	$out->print($encoded);
    }
    1;
}

#------------------------------
1;