Direct Internet Message Encapsulation (DIME) is an old Microsoft specification for sending and receiving SOAP messages along with additional attachments, like binary files, XML fragments, and even other SOAP messages, using standard transport protocols like HTTP.
Sample file: curl -LO https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct_formats/files/5894723/scanner_withoptions.dump.gz && gunzip scanner_withoptions.dump.gz
This page hosts a formal specification of DIME (Direct Internet Message Encapsulation) Message using Kaitai Struct. This specification can be automatically translated into a variety of programming languages to get a parsing library.
All parsing code for Ruby generated by Kaitai Struct depends on the Ruby runtime library. You have to install it before you can parse data.
The Ruby runtime library can be installed from RubyGems:
gem install kaitai-struct
Parse a local file and get structure in memory:
data = DimeMessage.from_file("path/to/local/file.dim")
Or parse structure from a string of bytes:
bytes = "\x00\x01\x02..."
data = DimeMessage.new(Kaitai::Struct::Stream.new(bytes))
After that, one can get various attributes from the structure by invoking getter methods like:
data.records # => get records
# This is a generated file! Please edit source .ksy file and use kaitai-struct-compiler to rebuild
require 'kaitai/struct/struct'
unless Gem::Version.new(Kaitai::Struct::VERSION) >= Gem::Version.new('0.9')
raise "Incompatible Kaitai Struct Ruby API: 0.9 or later is required, but you have #{Kaitai::Struct::VERSION}"
end
##
# Direct Internet Message Encapsulation (DIME)
# is an old Microsoft specification for sending and receiving
# SOAP messages along with additional attachments,
# like binary files, XML fragments, and even other
# SOAP messages, using standard transport protocols like HTTP.
#
# Sample file: `curl -LO
# https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct_formats/files/5894723/scanner_withoptions.dump.gz
# && gunzip scanner_withoptions.dump.gz`
# @see https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-nielsen-dime-02 Source
# @see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/msdn-magazine/2002/december/sending-files-attachments-and-soap-messages-via-dime Source
# @see http://imrannazar.com/Parsing-the-DIME-Message-Format Source
class DimeMessage < Kaitai::Struct::Struct
TYPE_FORMATS = {
0 => :type_formats_unchanged,
1 => :type_formats_media_type,
2 => :type_formats_absolute_uri,
3 => :type_formats_unknown,
4 => :type_formats_none,
}
I__TYPE_FORMATS = TYPE_FORMATS.invert
def initialize(_io, _parent = nil, _root = self)
super(_io, _parent, _root)
_read
end
def _read
@records = []
i = 0
while not @_io.eof?
@records << Record.new(@_io, self, @_root)
i += 1
end
self
end
##
# padding to the next 4-byte boundary
class Padding < Kaitai::Struct::Struct
def initialize(_io, _parent = nil, _root = self)
super(_io, _parent, _root)
_read
end
def _read
@boundary_padding = @_io.read_bytes((-(_io.pos) % 4))
self
end
attr_reader :boundary_padding
end
##
# the option field of the record
class OptionField < Kaitai::Struct::Struct
def initialize(_io, _parent = nil, _root = self)
super(_io, _parent, _root)
_read
end
def _read
@option_elements = []
i = 0
while not @_io.eof?
@option_elements << OptionElement.new(@_io, self, @_root)
i += 1
end
self
end
attr_reader :option_elements
end
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# one element of the option field
class OptionElement < Kaitai::Struct::Struct
def initialize(_io, _parent = nil, _root = self)
super(_io, _parent, _root)
_read
end
def _read
@element_format = @_io.read_u2be
@len_element = @_io.read_u2be
@element_data = @_io.read_bytes(len_element)
self
end
attr_reader :element_format
attr_reader :len_element
attr_reader :element_data
end
##
# each individual fragment of the message
class Record < Kaitai::Struct::Struct
def initialize(_io, _parent = nil, _root = self)
super(_io, _parent, _root)
_read
end
def _read
@version = @_io.read_bits_int_be(5)
@is_first_record = @_io.read_bits_int_be(1) != 0
@is_last_record = @_io.read_bits_int_be(1) != 0
@is_chunk_record = @_io.read_bits_int_be(1) != 0
@type_format = Kaitai::Struct::Stream::resolve_enum(DimeMessage::TYPE_FORMATS, @_io.read_bits_int_be(4))
@reserved = @_io.read_bits_int_be(4)
@_io.align_to_byte
@len_options = @_io.read_u2be
@len_id = @_io.read_u2be
@len_type = @_io.read_u2be
@len_data = @_io.read_u4be
@_raw_options = @_io.read_bytes(len_options)
_io__raw_options = Kaitai::Struct::Stream.new(@_raw_options)
@options = OptionField.new(_io__raw_options, self, @_root)
@options_padding = Padding.new(@_io, self, @_root)
@id = (@_io.read_bytes(len_id)).force_encoding("ASCII")
@id_padding = Padding.new(@_io, self, @_root)
@type = (@_io.read_bytes(len_type)).force_encoding("ASCII")
@type_padding = Padding.new(@_io, self, @_root)
@data = @_io.read_bytes(len_data)
@data_padding = Padding.new(@_io, self, @_root)
self
end
##
# DIME format version (always 1)
attr_reader :version
##
# Set if this is the first record in the message
attr_reader :is_first_record
##
# Set if this is the last record in the message
attr_reader :is_last_record
##
# Set if the file contained in this record is chunked into multiple records
attr_reader :is_chunk_record
##
# Indicates the structure and format of the value of the TYPE field
attr_reader :type_format
##
# Reserved for future use
attr_reader :reserved
##
# Length of the Options field
attr_reader :len_options
##
# Length of the ID field
attr_reader :len_id
##
# Length of the Type field
attr_reader :len_type
##
# Length of the Data field
attr_reader :len_data
attr_reader :options
attr_reader :options_padding
##
# Unique identifier of the file (set in the first record of file)
attr_reader :id
attr_reader :id_padding
##
# Specified type in the format set with type_format
attr_reader :type
attr_reader :type_padding
##
# The file data
attr_reader :data
attr_reader :data_padding
attr_reader :_raw_options
end
attr_reader :records
end