Parser hangs - Githubissues

Hello! I realise this library is a work in progress, but I wanted to try it out because I happen to a) need to parse some plist data and b) want to continue learning Rust. Feel free, therefore, to tell me "bugger off, this doesn't work yet".

I'm using the parser as follows, to read from the output of the system_profiler command:

extern crate plist;

use std::process::Command;
use std::io::{Read,Seek,SeekFrom,Cursor};
use plist::StreamingParser;

fn main() {
    println!("Profiling system.");

    let profiler = Command::new("system_profiler")
                           .arg("-xml")
                           .arg("-detailLevel")
                           .arg("basic")
                           .output()
                           .unwrap_or_else(|e| { panic!("Failed to spawn system profiler: {}", e) });

    let xml = String::from_utf8_lossy(&profiler.stdout).into_owned();

    println!("Parsing XML.");

    let mut stdout = Cursor::new(xml.into_bytes());

    let parser = StreamingParser::new(stdout);

    println!("Parser created.");

    for event in parser {
        println!("{:?}", event);
    }
}

However, this just hangs indefinitely on the for loop — I guess because the next() call in xml-rs is blocking, and so it's as though it's not receiving any input. I've tried rewinding the stream before passing it into StreamingParser::new and the same still happens.

Is this just a case of the library not being finished, or am I doing something obviously wrong that I can fix?

Thanks in advance, Rob

ebarnard / rust-plist

Parser hangs #1