**GenMagic** provides supervised and customisable access to [libmagic](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/libmagic.3.html) using a supervised external process.
With this library, you can start an one-off process to run a single check, or run the process as a daemon if you expect to run many checks.
## Installation
The package can be installed by adding `gen_magic` to your list of dependencies in `mix.exs`:
```elixir
def deps do
[
{:gen_magic, "~> 1.0.0"}
]
end
```
You must also have [libmagic](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/libmagic.3.html) installed locally with headers, alongside common compilation tools (i.e. build-essential). These can be acquired by apt-get, yum, brew, etc.
Compilation of the underlying C program is automatic and handled by [elixir_make](https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir_make).
## Usage
Depending on the use case, you may utilise a single (one-off) GenMagic process without reusing it as a daemon, or utilise a connection pool (such as Poolboy) in your application to run multiple persistent GenMagic processes.
To use GenMagic directly, you can use `GenMagic.Helpers.perform_once/1`:
```elixir
-iex(1)> GenMagic.Helpers.perform_once "."
+iex(1)> GenMagic.perform(".", once: true)
{:ok,
%GenMagic.Result{
content: "directory",
encoding: "binary",
mime_type: "inode/directory"
}}
```
To use the GenMagic server as a daemon, you can start it first, keep a reference, then feed messages to it as you require:
See `GenMagic.Server.start_link/1` and `t:GenMagic.Server.option/0` for more information on startup parameters.
See `GenMagic.Result` for details on the result provided.
## Configuration
When using `GenMagic.Server.start_link/1` to start a persistent server, or `GenMagic.Helpers.perform_once/2` to run an ad-hoc request, you can override specific options to suit your use case.
| Name | Default | Description |
| - | - | - |
| `:startup_timeout` | 1000 | Number of milliseconds to wait for client startup |
| `:process_timeout` | 30000 | Number of milliseconds to process each request |
| `:recycle_threshold` | 10 | Number of cycles before the C process is replaced |
| `:database_patterns` | `[:default]` | Databases to load |
See `t:GenMagic.Server.option/0` for details.
### Use Cases
### Ad-Hoc Requests
For ad-hoc requests, you can use the helper method `GenMagic.Helpers.perform_once/2`:
text(conn, "Received your file containing #{result.content}")
end
```
Obviously, it will be more ideal if you have wrapped `GenMagic.Server` in a pool such as Poolboy, to avoid constantly starting and stopping the underlying C program.
## Notes
### Soak Test
Run an endless cycle to prove that the program is resilient:
```bash
find /usr/share/ -name *png | xargs mix run test/soak.exs
find . -name *ex | xargs mix run test/soak.exs
```
## Acknowledgements
During design and prototype development of this library, the Author has drawn inspiration from the following individuals, and therefore thanks all contributors for their generosity:
- Mr [James Every](https://github.com/devstopfix)
- Enhanced Elixir Wrapper (based on GenServer)
- Initial Hex packaging (v.0.22)
- Soak Testing
diff --git a/lib/gen_magic.ex b/lib/gen_magic.ex
index f598521..292dfe8 100644
--- a/lib/gen_magic.ex
+++ b/lib/gen_magic.ex
@@ -1,7 +1,40 @@
defmodule GenMagic do
@moduledoc """
Top-level namespace for GenMagic, the libmagic client for Elixir.
See `GenMagic.Server` or the README for usage.
"""
+
+ @doc """
+ Perform on `path`.
+
+ An option of `server: ServerName`, `pool: PoolName` or `once: true` must be passed.