writemime
writemime(stream, mime, x)
The display functions ultimately call writemime in order to write an object x as a given mime type to a given I/O stream (usually a memory buffer), if possible. In order to provide a rich multimedia representation of a user-defined type T, it is only necessary to define a new writemime method for T, via: writemime(stream, ::MIME"mime", x::T) = ..., where mime is a MIME-type string and the function body calls write (or similar) to write that representation of x to stream. (Note that the MIME"" notation only supports literal strings; to construct MIME types in a more flexible manner use MIME{symbol("")}.)
For example, if you define a MyImage type and know how to write it to a PNG file, you could define a function writemime(stream, ::MIME"image/png", x::MyImage) = ... to allow your images to be displayed on any PNG-capable Display (such as IJulia). As usual, be sure to import Base.writemime in order to add new methods to the built-in Julia function writemime.
Technically, the MIME"mime" macro defines a singleton type for the given mime string, which allows us to exploit Julia's dispatch mechanisms in determining how to display objects of any given type.
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deserialize, eachline, eof, fd, flush, IOBuffer, ismarked, isopen, isreadonly, mark, nb_available, open, pipeline, position, read, read!, readavailable, readbytes, readbytes!, readline, redirect_stderr, redirect_stdin, reset, seek, seekend, seekstart, serialize, skip, skipchars, TextDisplay, unmark, write, writemime,User Contributed Notes
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