NAME
iPhoto - reads in photo albums plist files of iPhoto.app on MacOS X and presents them as perl data structure.
SYNOPSIS
use Mac::iPhoto;
my $a = new Mac::iPhoto("./AlbumData.xml");
$a->parse;
DESCRIPTION
Reads in photo albums plist files of iPhoto.app on MacOS X and presents them as perl data structure.
FUNCTIONS
&new();
my $AlbumData = Mac::iPhoto->new( "/Users/Shared/Photo/AlbumData.xml" );
Creates new data object. Takes one parameter - UNIX path to
AlbumData.xml file.&parse()
$AlbumData->&parse();
Parses XML file and populates data structure $AlbumData->{'Data'}.Structure of the data format of iPhoto.pm
Mac::iPhoto->parse() populates a hash iPhoto->{Data} that has following structure:
{
Properties => \%Properties,
Albums => \@Albums,
Images => \@Images
}%Properties is hash of the top-level properties in the AlbumData.xml file.
%Properties has following structure:
{
'Application Version' => string,
'Archive Path' => string,
'Major Version' => string,
'Minor Version' => string,
}@Albums - array describing all albums in parsed XML file.
@Albums has following structure:
{
'AlbumName' => string,
'BookDesignName' => string,
'RepeatSlideShow' => string,
'SecondsPerSlide' => string,
'SongPath' => string,
'KeyList' => \@KeyList,
}@Images - array describing all images in the AlbumData.xml file.
@Images has following structure:
(
'ImagePath' => string,
'Caption' => string,
'Comment' => string,
'Date' => string,
'ThumbPath' => string,
'ModificationDate' => string,
);CHANGES
Nov 19, 2003 - 1st actually working version of module.
EXAMPLE
use Mac::iPhoto;
my $a = new Mac::iPhoto("./AlbumData.xml");
$a->parse;
printf "Created by iTunes v. %s / maj.%s / min.%s\n", $a->{'Properties'}->{'Application Version'}, $a->{Properties}->{'Major Version'}, $a->{Properties}->{'Minor Version'};
printf "Album path: %s\n", $a->{Properties}->{'Archive Path'};
for my $album (@{$a->{Data}->{Albums}}) {
printf "Name: %s \n", $album->{'AlbumName'};
printf "BookDesignName: %s \n", $album->{'BookDesignName'};
for my $key ( @{$album->{'KeyList'}}) {
print $key, ": \n";
printf "\t%s\n\t%s\n\t%s\n\t%s\n\t%s\n\t%s\n",
$a->{Data}->{Images}->[$key]->{'Date'},
$a->{Data}->{Images}->[$key]->{'ImagePath'},
$a->{Data}->{Images}->[$key]->{'ThumbPath'},
$a->{Data}->{Images}->[$key]->{'Caption'},
$a->{Data}->{Images}->[$key]->{'Comment'},
$a->{Data}->{Images}->[$key]->{'ModificationDate'};
}
}CREDITS
Mac::iPhoto relies on Mac::PropertyList module for actual parsing of XML file. Thanks for Brian D Foy, <bdfoy@cpan.org> for developing it.
AUTHOR
Dmytro Kovalov, 2003. kov at tokyo dot email dot ne dot jp.
http://yarylo.sytes.net/
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~as9d-kvlv/SEE ALSO
https://sourceforge.net/projects/brian-d-foy/