Monday, November 08, 2010 at 12:03 AM.

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system.verbs.builtins.html.publishBinaryObject

on publishBinaryObject (adrObject, adrPageTable, templateName=nil) {
	<<This script publishes a binary object.
		<<It's called from html.buildObject.
		<<The binary can be anything -- an image, a java class, a shockwave file.
		<<The file suffix of the object is gotten in one of two ways:
			<<1) Looking at the name of the object.
				<<If the name contains a . character, then the name includes the file suffix.
			<<2) Looking at the binary type of the object.
				<<The binary type becomes the file suffix, after pre-pending a . char.
				<<Images binary types of 'GIFf' and 'JPEG' are translated to .gif and .jpg.
		<<Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 8:02:40 PM by PBS
	
	local (binType = getBinaryType (adrObject^));
	local (objectName = nameOf (adrObject^));
	local (suffix = binType);
	local (macType = binType, macCreator);
	local (flNameContainsSuffix = false);
	
	bundle { //get the file suffix
		if objectName contains "." { //is the suffix part of the name of the object?
			suffix = string.nthField (objectName, '.', string.countFields (objectName, '.'));
			flNameContainsSuffix = true};
		
		suffix = string.nthField (suffix, ' ', 1); //remove trailing spaces
		suffix = "." + suffix; //pre-pend a period
		
		<<Handle 'GIFf' and 'JPEG' binary types
		if string.lower (suffix) == ".giff" {
			suffix = ".gif"};
		if string.lower (suffix) == ".jpeg" {
			suffix = ".jpg"}};
	
	bundle { //get the Macintosh creator code
		local(theOS = sys.os());
		if theOS == "MacOS" || theOS == "MacCn" {
			macCreator = frontier.id;
			case suffix {
				".gif" {
					macType = 'GIFf';
					macCreator = html.getPref ("imgFileCreator")};
				".jpg" {
					macType = 'JPEG';
					macCreator = html.getPref ("imgFileCreator")}}}};
	
	bundle { //fix f, fname, and URL to have the right file suffix and folder name
		on fixPath (adrString) {
			adrString^ = string.popSuffix (adrString^, '.'); //remove current suffix
			
			if flNameContainsSuffix { //pop off the suffix from the path -- it's been normalized into the path
				adrString^ = string.mid (adrString^, 1, sizeOf (adrString^) - (sizeOf (suffix) -1));
				adrString^ = string.popTrailing (adrString^, '.')}; //remove possible stray . char
			
			adrString^ = adrString^ + suffix; //add correct suffix
			
			if adrString^ contains "#" { //the object may live in an #images (or similar) table -- remove the # char
				local (folderName = nameOf (parentOf (adrObject^)^));
				if folderName beginsWith "#" {
					local (pathDelim = file.getPathChar ());
					if string.lower (nameOf (adrString^)) == "url" { //For URLs, the path delimiter is the forward slash
						pathDelim = "/"};
					
					<<Find occurence of /#images/ or \#images\ or :#images: in the path
					local (ix = string.patternMatch (pathDelim + folderName + pathDelim, string.lower (adrString^)));
					if ix > 0 {
						adrString^ = string.delete (adrString^, ix + 1, 1)}}}}; //delete the # character
		
		fixPath (@adrPageTable^.fname); //Fix the file file name
		fixPath (@adrPageTable^.f); //Fix the file path
		fixPath (@adrPageTable^.url)}; //Fix the URL
	
	<<Write the file.
	html.writeFile (adrPageTable^.f, adrObject, macType, macCreator, clock.now (), adrPageTable);
	
	return (adrObject^)} //return the contents of the binary object to html.buildObject

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This listing is for code that runs in the OPML Editor environment. I created these listings because I wanted the search engines to index it, so that when I want to look up something in my codebase I don't have to use the much slower search functionality in my object database. Dave Winer.