Light-weight test for FAT validity of a given file object

[mxmlnkn]

As mentioned in #41, I am trying to use this project via FUSE. The current work in progress works quite fine already.

Bash script to test the work-in-progress state.

# Would be nice to have this without sudo, but I don't want to create test cases with the same program being tested.
head -c $(( 1024 * 1024 )) /dev/zero > 'folder-symlink.fat'
mkfs.fat 'folder-symlink.fat'
mkdir mounted
sudo mount 'folder-symlink.fat' mounted
cd mounted
sudo mkdir -p foo/fighter
echo bar | sudo tee > foo/fighter/ufo
sudo umount mounted

python3 -m pip install --user --force-reinstall \
    'git+https://github.com/mxmlnkn/ratarmount.git@fat#egginfo=ratarmountcore&subdirectory=core' \
    'git+https://github.com/mxmlnkn/ratarmount.git@fat#egginfo=ratarmount'

ratarmount folder-symlink.fat mounted
tree mounted
# mounted/
# └── foo
#     └── fighter
#         └── ufo
# 
# 2 directories, 1 file

However, for integration, I need a isFATImage function that can relatively quickly check a given bytes file object whether it is a FAT file / image. Normally, these check functions would only require checking the first 2-10 bytes, depending on the file format, but for FAT it is probably not all that easy. Currently, I call private functions of pyfatfs to achieve something like this:

fs = PyFat.PyFat()
fs._PyFat__set_fp(fileObject)
fs.is_read_only = True
try:
    fs.parse_header()
    return True
except pyfatfs.PyFATException:
    return False
finally:
    # Reset file object so that it does not get closed! Cannot be None because that is checked.
    fs._PyFat__fp = io.BytesIO()

It would be nice to have some officially supported way to do something like this. I am not sure whether _parse_fat, in addition to parse_header, should be included in such a check. It depends a bit on how much it checks.