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+# Copyright 2016 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
+# Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+# license that can be found in the LICENSE file or at
+# https://developers.google.com/open-source/licenses/bsd
+
+"""Utility routines for dealing with MIME types and decoding text files."""
+
+from __future__ import division
+from __future__ import print_function
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+
+import itertools
+import logging
+
+from framework import framework_constants
+
+
+_EXTENSION_TO_CTYPE_TABLE = {
+    # These are images/PDFs that we trust the browser to display.
+    'gif': 'image/gif',
+    'jpg': 'image/jpeg',
+    'jpeg': 'image/jpeg',
+    'png': 'image/png',
+    'webp': 'image/webp',
+    'ico': 'image/x-icon',
+    'svg': 'image/svg+xml',
+    'pdf': 'application/pdf',
+    'ogv': 'video/ogg',
+    'mov': 'video/quicktime',
+    'mp4': 'video/mp4',
+    'mpg': 'video/mp4',
+    'mpeg': 'video/mp4',
+    'webm': 'video/webm',
+
+    # We do not serve mimetypes that cause the brower to launch a local
+    # app because that is not required for issue tracking and it is a
+    # potential security risk.
+}
+
+
+def GuessContentTypeFromFilename(filename):
+  """Guess a file's content type based on the filename extension.
+
+  Args:
+    filename: String name of a file.
+
+  Returns:
+    MIME type string to use when serving this file.  We only use text/plain for
+    text files, appropriate image content-types, or application/octet-stream
+    for virtually all binary files.  This limits the richness of the user's
+    experience, e.g., the user cannot open an MS Office application directly
+    by clicking on an attachment, but it is safer.
+  """
+  ext = filename.split('.')[-1] if ('.' in filename) else ''
+  ext = ext.lower()
+  if ext in COMMON_TEXT_FILE_EXTENSIONS:
+    return 'text/plain'
+  return _EXTENSION_TO_CTYPE_TABLE.get(ext.lower(), 'application/octet-stream')
+
+
+# Constants used in detecting if a file has binary content.
+# All line lengths must be below the upper limit, and there must be a spefic
+# ratio below the lower limit.
+_MAX_SOURCE_LINE_LEN_LOWER = 350
+_MAX_SOURCE_LINE_LEN_UPPER = 800
+_SOURCE_LINE_LEN_LOWER_RATIO = 0.9
+
+# Message to display for undecodable commit log or author values.
+UNDECODABLE_LOG_CONTENT = '[Cannot be displayed]'
+
+# How large a repository file is in bytes before we don't try to display it
+SOURCE_FILE_MAX_SIZE = 1000 * 1024
+SOURCE_FILE_MAX_LINES = 50000
+
+# The source code browser will not attempt to display any filename ending
+# with one of these extensions.
+COMMON_BINARY_FILE_EXTENSIONS = {
+    'gif', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'psd', 'ico', 'icon', 'xbm', 'xpm', 'xwd', 'pcx',
+    'bmp', 'png', 'vsd,' 'mpg', 'mpeg', 'wmv', 'wmf', 'avi', 'flv', 'snd',
+    'mp3', 'wma', 'exe', 'dll', 'bin', 'class', 'o', 'so', 'lib', 'dylib',
+    'jar', 'ear', 'war', 'par', 'msi', 'tar', 'zip', 'rar', 'cab', 'z', 'gz',
+    'bz2', 'dmg', 'iso', 'rpm', 'pdf', 'eps', 'tif', 'tiff', 'xls', 'ppt',
+    'graffie', 'violet', 'webm', 'webp',
+    }
+
+# The source code browser will display file contents as text data for files
+# with the following extensions or exact filenames (assuming they decode
+# correctly).
+COMMON_TEXT_FILE_EXTENSIONS = (
+    set(framework_constants.PRETTIFY_CLASS_MAP.keys()) | {
+        '',
+        'ada',
+        'asan',
+        'asm',
+        'asp',
+        'bat',
+        'cgi',
+        'csv',
+        'diff',
+        'el',
+        'emacs',
+        'jsp',
+        'log',
+        'markdown',
+        'md',
+        'mf',
+        'patch',
+        'plist',
+        'properties',
+        'r',
+        'rc',
+        'txt',
+        'vim',
+        'wiki',
+        'xemacs',
+        'yacc',
+    })
+COMMON_TEXT_FILENAMES = (
+    set(framework_constants.PRETTIFY_FILENAME_CLASS_MAP.keys()) |
+    {'authors', 'install', 'readme'})
+
+
+def DecodeFileContents(file_contents, path=None):
+  """Try converting file contents to unicode using utf-8 or latin-1.
+
+  This is applicable to untrusted maybe-text from vcs files or inbound emails.
+
+  We try decoding the file as utf-8, then fall back on latin-1. In the former
+  case, we call the file a text file; in the latter case, we guess whether
+  the file is text or binary based on line length.
+
+  If we guess text when the file is binary, the user sees safely encoded
+  gibberish. If the other way around, the user sees a message that we will
+  not display the file.
+
+  TODO(jrobbins): we could try the user-supplied encoding, iff it
+  is one of the encodings that we know that we can handle.
+
+  Args:
+    file_contents: byte string from uploaded file.  It could be text in almost
+      any encoding, or binary.  We cannot trust the user-supplied encoding
+      in the mime-type property.
+    path: string pathname of file.
+
+  Returns:
+    The tuple (unicode_string, is_binary, is_long):
+      - The unicode version of the string.
+      - is_binary is true if the string could not be decoded as text.
+      - is_long is true if the file has more than SOURCE_FILE_MAX_LINES lines.
+  """
+  # If the filename is one that typically identifies a binary file, then
+  # just treat it as binary without any further analysis.
+  ext = None
+  if path and '.' in path:
+    ext = path.split('.')[-1]
+    if ext.lower() in COMMON_BINARY_FILE_EXTENSIONS:
+      # If the file is binary, we don't care about the length, since we don't
+      # show or diff it.
+      return u'', True, False
+
+  # If the string can be decoded as utf-8, we treat it as textual.
+  try:
+    u_str = file_contents.decode('utf-8', 'strict')
+    is_long = len(u_str.split('\n')) > SOURCE_FILE_MAX_LINES
+    return u_str, False, is_long
+  except UnicodeDecodeError:
+    logging.info('not a utf-8 file: %s bytes', len(file_contents))
+
+  # Fall back on latin-1. This will always succeed, since every byte maps to
+  # something in latin-1, even if that something is gibberish.
+  u_str = file_contents.decode('latin-1', 'strict')
+
+  lines = u_str.split('\n')
+  is_long = len(lines) > SOURCE_FILE_MAX_LINES
+  # Treat decodable files with certain filenames and/or extensions as text
+  # files. This avoids problems with common file types using our text/binary
+  # heuristic rules below.
+  if path:
+    name = path.split('/')[-1]
+    if (name.lower() in COMMON_TEXT_FILENAMES or
+        (ext and ext.lower() in COMMON_TEXT_FILE_EXTENSIONS)):
+      return u_str, False, is_long
+
+  # HEURISTIC: Binary files can qualify as latin-1, so we need to
+  # check further.  Any real source code is going to be divided into
+  # reasonably sized lines. All lines must be below an upper character limit,
+  # and most lines must be below a lower limit. This allows some exceptions
+  # to the lower limit, but is more restrictive than just using a single
+  # large character limit.
+  is_binary = False
+  lower_count = 0
+  for line in itertools.islice(lines, SOURCE_FILE_MAX_LINES):
+    size = len(line)
+    if size <= _MAX_SOURCE_LINE_LEN_LOWER:
+      lower_count += 1
+    elif size > _MAX_SOURCE_LINE_LEN_UPPER:
+      is_binary = True
+      break
+
+  ratio = lower_count / float(max(1, len(lines)))
+  if ratio < _SOURCE_LINE_LEN_LOWER_RATIO:
+    is_binary = True
+
+  return u_str, is_binary, is_long