Use trait instead of istextmime

base/docs/helpdb/Base.jl

@@ -2480,22 +2480,6 @@ the current exception (if called within a `catch` block).
 """
 rethrow
 
-"""
-    reprmime(mime, x)
-
-Returns an `AbstractString` or `Vector{UInt8}` containing the representation of `x` in the
-requested `mime` type, as written by `show` (throwing a `MethodError` if no appropriate
-`show` is available). An `AbstractString` is returned for MIME types with textual
-representations (such as `"text/html"` or `"application/postscript"`), whereas binary data
-is returned as `Vector{UInt8}`. (The function `istextmime(mime)` returns whether or not Julia
-treats a given `mime` type as text.)
-
-As a special case, if `x` is an `AbstractString` (for textual MIME types) or a
-`Vector{UInt8}` (for binary MIME types), the `reprmime` function assumes that `x` is already
-in the requested `mime` format and simply returns `x`.
-"""
-reprmime
-
 """
     !(x)
 
@@ -2975,14 +2959,6 @@ Print strings in a color specified as a symbol.
 """
 print_with_color
 
-"""
-    stringmime(mime, x)
-
-Returns an `AbstractString` containing the representation of `x` in the requested `mime`
-type. This is similar to [`reprmime`](:func:`reprmime`) except that binary data is base64-encoded as an ASCII string.
-"""
-stringmime
-
 """
     zero(x)
 

base/multimedia.jl

@@ -33,56 +33,89 @@ mimewritable{mime}(::MIME{mime}, x) =
 show(io::IO, m::AbstractString, x) = show(io, MIME(m), x)
 mimewritable(m::AbstractString, x) = mimewritable(MIME(m), x)
 
-###########################################################################
-# MIME types are assumed to be binary data except for a set of types known
-# to be text data (possibly Unicode).  istextmime(m) returns whether
-# m::MIME is text data, and reprmime(m, x) returns x written to either
-# a string (for text m::MIME) or a Vector{UInt8} (for binary m::MIME),
-# assuming the corresponding write_mime method exists.  stringmime
-# is like reprmime except that it always returns a string, which in the
-# case of binary data is Base64-encoded.
-#
-# Also, if reprmime is passed a AbstractString for a text type or Vector{UInt8} for
-# a binary type, the argument is assumed to already be in the corresponding
-# format and is returned unmodified.  This is useful so that raw data can be
-# passed to display(m::MIME, x).
+abstract MIMETypeType
+
+immutable IsText <: MIMETypeType end
+immutable IsBytes <: MIMETypeType end
 
 verbose_show(io, m, x) = show(IOContext(io,limit=false), m, x)
 
+"""
+MIME types are assumed to be binary data except for a set of types known to be
+text data (possibly Unicode). `mimetypetype(m)` returns `Multimedia.IsText` or
+`Multimedia.IsBytes` for text or binary data respectively.
+"""
+mimetypetype{M}(::MIME{M}) =
+    startswith(string(M), "text/") ? IsText() : IsBytes()
+
+"""
+    reprmime(mime, x)
+
+Returns an `AbstractString` or `Vector{UInt8}` containing the representation of
+`x` in the requested `mime` type, as written by `show` (throwing a
+`MethodError` if no appropriate `show` is available). An `AbstractString` is
+returned for MIME types with textual representations (such as `"text/html"` or
+`"application/postscript"`), whereas binary data is returned as
+`Vector{UInt8}`. (The function `istextmime(mime)` returns whether or not Julia
+treats a given `mime` type as text.)
+
+As a special case, if `x` is an `AbstractString` (for textual MIME types) or a
+`Vector{UInt8}` (for binary MIME types), the `reprmime` function assumes that
+`x` is already in the requested `mime` format and simply returns `x`. This
+special case does not apply to the `"text/plain"` MIME type. This is useful so
+that raw data can be passed to `display(m::MIME, x)`.
+"""
+reprmime(m::MIME, x) = reprmime(mimetypetype(m), m, x)
+reprmime(::IsText, m::MIME, x) = sprint(verbose_show, m, x)
+
+# strings are shown escaped for text/plain
+reprmime(::IsText, ::MIME, x::AbstractString) = x
+reprmime(::IsText, m::MIME"text/plain", x::AbstractString) =
+    sprint(verbose_show, m, x)
+
+function reprmime(::IsBytes, m::MIME, x)
+    s = IOBuffer()
+    verbose_show(s, m, x)
+    takebuf_array(s)
+end
+reprmime(::IsBytes, m::MIME, x::Vector{UInt8}) = x
+
+"""
+    stringmime(mime, x)
+
+Returns an `AbstractString` containing the representation of `x` in the
+requested `mime` type. This is similar to [`reprmime`](:func:`reprmime`) except
+that binary data is base64-encoded as an ASCII string.
+"""
+stringmime(m::MIME, x) = stringmime(mimetypetype(m), m, x)
+stringmime(::IsText, m::MIME, x) = reprmime(m, x)
+stringmime(::IsBytes, m::MIME, x) = base64encode(verbose_show, m, x)
+stringmime(::IsBytes, m::MIME, x::Vector{UInt8}) = base64encode(write, x)
+
 macro textmime(mime)
+    Base.depwarn(string("`@textmime mime` is deprecated; use ",
+        "`Base.Multimedia.mimetypetype(::MIME{mime}) = ",
+        "Base.Multimedia.IsText` instead."))
     quote
-        mimeT = MIME{Symbol($mime)}
-        # avoid method ambiguities with the general definitions below:
-        # (Q: should we treat Vector{UInt8} as a String?)
-        Base.Multimedia.reprmime(m::mimeT, x::Vector{UInt8}) = sprint(verbose_show, m, x)
-        Base.Multimedia.stringmime(m::mimeT, x::Vector{UInt8}) = reprmime(m, x)
-
-        Base.Multimedia.istextmime(::mimeT) = true
-        if $(mime != "text/plain") # strings are shown escaped for text/plain
-            Base.Multimedia.reprmime(m::mimeT, x::AbstractString) = x
-        end
-        Base.Multimedia.reprmime(m::mimeT, x) = sprint(verbose_show, m, x)
-        Base.Multimedia.stringmime(m::mimeT, x) = reprmime(m, x)
+        Base.Multimedia.mimetypetype(::MIME{$(Symbol(mime))}) =
+            Base.Multimedia.IsText()
     end
 end
 
-istextmime(::MIME) = false
-function reprmime(m::MIME, x)
-    s = IOBuffer()
-    verbose_show(s, m, x)
-    takebuf_array(s)
-end
-reprmime(m::MIME, x::Vector{UInt8}) = x
-stringmime(m::MIME, x) = base64encode(verbose_show, m, x)
-stringmime(m::MIME, x::Vector{UInt8}) = base64encode(write, x)
+istextmime(m::MIME) = isa(mimetypetype(m), IsText)
 
 # it is convenient to accept strings instead of ::MIME
 istextmime(m::AbstractString) = istextmime(MIME(m))
 reprmime(m::AbstractString, x) = reprmime(MIME(m), x)
 stringmime(m::AbstractString, x) = stringmime(MIME(m), x)
 
-for mime in ["application/atom+xml", "application/ecmascript", "application/javascript", "application/julia", "application/json", "application/postscript", "application/rdf+xml", "application/rss+xml", "application/x-latex", "application/xhtml+xml", "application/xml", "application/xml-dtd", "image/svg+xml", "model/vrml", "model/x3d+vrml", "model/x3d+xml", "text/calendar", "text/cmd", "text/css", "text/csv", "text/html", "text/javascript", "text/latex", "text/markdown", "text/n3", "text/plain", "text/richtext", "text/sgml", "text/tab-separated-values", "text/vcard", "text/vnd.graphviz", "text/x-setext", "text/x-vcalendar", "text/x-vcard", "text/xml"]
-    @eval @textmime $mime
+for mime in ["application/atom+xml", "application/ecmascript",
+"application/javascript", "application/julia", "application/json",
+"application/postscript", "application/rdf+xml", "application/rss+xml",
+"application/x-latex", "application/xhtml+xml", "application/xml",
+"application/xml-dtd", "image/svg+xml", "model/vrml", "model/x3d+vrml",
+"model/x3d+xml"]
+    mimetypetype(::MIME{Symbol(mime)}) = IsText()
 end
 
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