ENH: Add reader.attachments public interface

docs/index.rst

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ You can contribute to `pypdf on GitHub <https:/py-pdf/pypdf>`_.
  user/metadata
  user/extract-text
  user/extract-images
+ user/extract-attachments
  user/encryption-decryption
  user/merging-pdfs
  user/cropping-and-transforming

docs/user/extract-attachments.md

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# Extract Attachments
+
+PDF documents can contain attachments. Attachments have a name, but it might not
+be unique. For this reason, the value of `reader.attachments["attachment_name"]`
+is a list.
+
+You can extract all attachments like this:
+
+```python
+from pypdf import PdfReader
+
+reader = PdfReader("example.pdf")
+
+for name, content_list in reader.attachments:
+ for i, content in enumerate(content_list):
+ with open(f"{name}-{i}", "wb") as fp:
+ fp.write(content)
+```

pypdf/_reader.py

@@ -39,7 +39,9 @@
  Callable,
  Dict,
  Iterable,
+ Iterator,
  List,
+ Mapping,
  Optional,
  Tuple,
  Union,
@@ -2146,6 +2148,15 @@ def rename_form_topname(self, name: str) -> Optional[DictionaryObject]:
  interim[NameObject("/T")] = TextStringObject(name)
  return interim
 
+ @property
+ def attachments(self) -> Mapping[str, List[bytes]]:
+ return LazyDict(
+ {
+ name: (self._get_attachment_list, name)
+ for name in self._list_attachments()
+ }
+ )
+
  def _list_attachments(self) -> List[str]:
  """
  Retrieves the list of filenames of file attachments.
@@ -2172,6 +2183,12 @@ def _list_attachments(self) -> List[str]:
  attachments_names.append(f)
  return attachments_names
 
+ def _get_attachment_list(self, name: str) -> List[bytes]:
+ out = self._get_attachments(name)[name]
+ if isinstance(out, list):
+ return out
+ return [out]
+
  def _get_attachments(
  self, filename: Optional[str] = None
  ) -> Dict[str, Union[bytes, List[bytes]]]:
@@ -2220,6 +2237,21 @@ def _get_attachments(
  return attachments
 
 
+class LazyDict(Mapping):
+ def __init__(self, *args: Any, **kw: Any) -> None:
+ self._raw_dict = dict(*args, **kw)
+
+ def __getitem__(self, key: str) -> Any:
+ func, arg = self._raw_dict.__getitem__(key)
+ return func(arg)
+
+ def __iter__(self) -> Iterator[Any]:
+ return iter(self._raw_dict)
+
+ def __len__(self) -> int:
+ return len(self._raw_dict)
+
+
 class PdfFileReader(PdfReader): # deprecated
  def __init__(self, *args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> None:
  deprecation_with_replacement("PdfFileReader", "PdfReader", "3.0.0")

tests/test_writer.py

@@ -1203,25 +1203,42 @@ def test_attachments():
  b.seek(0)
  reader = PdfReader(b)
  b = None
+ assert reader.attachments == {}
  assert reader._list_attachments() == []
  assert reader._get_attachments() == {}
- writer.add_attachment("foobar.txt", b"foobarcontent")
- writer.add_attachment("foobar2.txt", b"foobarcontent2")
- writer.add_attachment("foobar2.txt", b"2nd_foobarcontent")
+ to_add = [
+ ("foobar.txt", b"foobarcontent"),
+ ("foobar2.txt", b"foobarcontent2"),
+ ("foobar2.txt", b"2nd_foobarcontent"),
+ ]
+ for name, content in to_add:
+ writer.add_attachment(name, content)
 
  b = BytesIO()
  writer.write(b)
  b.seek(0)
  reader = PdfReader(b)
  b = None
- assert reader._list_attachments() == ["foobar.txt", "foobar2.txt", "foobar2.txt"]
+ assert sorted(reader.attachments.keys()) == sorted({name for name, _ in to_add})
+ assert reader._list_attachments() == [name for name, _ in to_add]
+
+ # We've added the same key twice - hence only 2 and not 3:
  att = reader._get_attachments()
- assert len(att) == 2
+ assert len(att) == 2 # we have 2 keys, but 3 attachments!
+
+ # The content for foobar.txt is clear and just a single value:
  assert att["foobar.txt"] == b"foobarcontent"
+
+ # The content for foobar2.txt is a list!
  att = reader._get_attachments("foobar2.txt")
  assert len(att) == 1
  assert att["foobar2.txt"] == [b"foobarcontent2", b"2nd_foobarcontent"]
 
+ # Let's do both cases with the public interface:
+ assert reader.attachments["foobar.txt"][0] == b"foobarcontent"
+ assert reader.attachments["foobar2.txt"][0] == b"foobarcontent2"
+ assert reader.attachments["foobar2.txt"][1] == b"2nd_foobarcontent"
+
 
 @pytest.mark.external
 def test_iss1614():