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The new Steam beta introduced a new `appinfo.vdf` version. This
appinfo.vdf V29 introduces a new binary VDF format which does not
include field keys in binary VDF segments as-is. Instead, each key is
represented by a 32-bit integer which needs to be mapped to an actual
string using a table stored at the end of the `appinfo.vdf` file.

This also means the binary VDF segments in this case are no longer
self-contained. The developer can parse and provide the table
themselves or instead use the `ValvePython/steam` library which
contains a function to parse `appinfo.vdf` files.

Also see SteamDatabase/SteamAppInfo@56b1fec

Refs ValvePython/steam#462
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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions tests/test_binary_vdf.py
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Expand Up @@ -166,6 +166,12 @@ def test_raise_on_remaining_with_file(self):
vdf.binary_load(buf, raise_on_remaining=True)
self.assertEqual(buf.read(), b'aaaa')

def test_key_table(self):
test = b'\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00value\x00\x01\x02\x00\x00\x00value3\x00\x08'
key_table = ['key', 'key2', 'key3', 'key4']

self.assertEqual({'key': 'value', 'key3': 'value3'}, vdf.binary_loads(test, key_table=key_table))

def test_vbkv_loads_empty(self):
with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
vdf.vbkv_loads(b'')
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26 changes: 22 additions & 4 deletions vdf/__init__.py
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Expand Up @@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ class COLOR(BASE_INT):
BIN_INT64 = b'\x0A'
BIN_END_ALT = b'\x0B'

def binary_loads(b, mapper=dict, merge_duplicate_keys=True, alt_format=False, raise_on_remaining=True):
def binary_loads(b, mapper=dict, merge_duplicate_keys=True, alt_format=False, key_table=None, raise_on_remaining=True):
"""
Deserialize ``b`` (``bytes`` containing a VDF in "binary form")
to a Python object.
Expand All @@ -307,13 +307,18 @@ def binary_loads(b, mapper=dict, merge_duplicate_keys=True, alt_format=False, ra
``merge_duplicate_keys`` when ``True`` will merge multiple KeyValue lists with the
same key into one instead of overwriting. You can se this to ``False`` if you are
using ``VDFDict`` and need to preserve the duplicates.
``key_table`` will be used to translate keys in binary VDF objects
which do not encode strings directly but instead store them in an out-of-band
table. Newer `appinfo.vdf` format stores this table the end of the file,
and it is needed to deserialize the binary VDF objects in that file.
"""
if not isinstance(b, bytes):
raise TypeError("Expected s to be bytes, got %s" % type(b))

return binary_load(BytesIO(b), mapper, merge_duplicate_keys, alt_format, raise_on_remaining)
return binary_load(BytesIO(b), mapper, merge_duplicate_keys, alt_format, key_table, raise_on_remaining)

def binary_load(fp, mapper=dict, merge_duplicate_keys=True, alt_format=False, raise_on_remaining=False):
def binary_load(fp, mapper=dict, merge_duplicate_keys=True, alt_format=False, key_table=None, raise_on_remaining=False):
"""
Deserialize ``fp`` (a ``.read()``-supporting file-like object containing
binary VDF) to a Python object.
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``merge_duplicate_keys`` when ``True`` will merge multiple KeyValue lists with the
same key into one instead of overwriting. You can se this to ``False`` if you are
using ``VDFDict`` and need to preserve the duplicates.
``key_table`` will be used to translate keys in binary VDF objects
which do not encode strings directly but instead store them in an out-of-band
table. Newer `appinfo.vdf` format stores this table the end of the file,
and it is needed to deserialize the binary VDF objects in that file.
"""
if not hasattr(fp, 'read') or not hasattr(fp, 'tell') or not hasattr(fp, 'seek'):
raise TypeError("Expected fp to be a file-like object with tell()/seek() and read() returning bytes")
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continue
break

key = read_string(fp)
if key_table:
# If 'key_table' was provided, each key is an int32 value that
# needs to be mapped to an actual field name using a key table.
# Newer appinfo.vdf (V29+) stores this table at the end of the file.
index = int32.unpack(fp.read(int32.size))[0]

key = key_table[index]
else:
key = read_string(fp)

if t == BIN_NONE:
if merge_duplicate_keys and key in stack[-1]:
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