From 515599f2d499056900c4ef85ed990583392e0026 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cabbagec <root@everdream.xyz>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2026 07:10:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Recognize BitComet padding file names

---
 pyproject.toml                 |  2 +-
 src/archive_clients/bencode.py | 12 +++++++++++-
 tests/test_resources.py        |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d65d527..e07c548 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "archive-clients"
-version = "0.1.18"
+version = "0.1.19"
 requires-python = ">=3.11"
 dependencies = ["protobuf==7.35.1", "websockets==16.0"]
 
diff --git a/src/archive_clients/bencode.py b/src/archive_clients/bencode.py
index 5640d5e..619beef 100644
--- a/src/archive_clients/bencode.py
+++ b/src/archive_clients/bencode.py
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ def _v1_files(info: dict[bytes, Any]) -> list[MetaFile]:
         components = [name] + [_component(part) for part in raw_path]
         result.append(MetaFile(
             "/".join(components), _length(item.get(b"length")),
-            _padding(item),
+            _padding(item) or _bitcomet_padding_name(components[-1]),
         ))
     return result
 
@@ -223,3 +223,13 @@ def _length(value: Any) -> int:
 def _padding(value: dict[bytes, Any]) -> bool:
     attributes = value.get(b"attr", b"")
     return isinstance(attributes, bytes) and b"p" in attributes
+
+
+def _bitcomet_padding_name(component: str) -> bool:
+    """Recognize BitComet's legacy padding-file convention.
+
+    Such v1 torrents often omit the standard ``attr=p`` flag, but
+    qBittorrent/libtorrent still hides these synthetic entries from its file
+    API.  The exact reserved prefix is the interoperable marker.
+    """
+    return component.startswith("_____padding_file_")
diff --git a/tests/test_resources.py b/tests/test_resources.py
index 0618aec..f0fd3f3 100644
--- a/tests/test_resources.py
+++ b/tests/test_resources.py
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ class ResourceTests(unittest.TestCase):
             b"files": [
                 {b"length": 3, b"path": [b"first.bin"]},
                 {
-                    b"attr": b"p", b"length": 5,
+                    b"length": 5,
                     b"path": [b"_____padding_file_5"],
                 },
                 {b"length": 7, b"path": [b"last.bin"]},