How can I calculate a file checksum in Elixir?

Question

I need to calculate the md5 sum of a file in Elixir, how can this be achieved? I would expect that something like:

iex(15)> {:ok, f} = File.open "file"
{:ok, #PID<0.334.0>}
iex(16)> :crypto.hash(:md5, f)
** (ArgumentError) argument error
             :erlang.iolist_to_binary(#PID<0.334.0>)
    (crypto) crypto.erl:225: :crypto.hash/2

But clearly it doesn't work..

The documentation of Mix.Utils tells about read_path/2, but it didn't worked either.

iex(22)> Mix.Utils.read_path("file", [:sha512])  
{:ok, "Elixir"} #the expected was {:checksum, "<checksum_value>"}

Is there any library that provides such functionality in a easy way?

Answer 1

In case anyone else finds this question and misses @FredtheMagicWonderDog's comment . . .

Check out this blog posting: http://www.cursingthedarkness.com/2015/04/how-to-get-hash-of-file-in-exilir.html

And here's the relevant code:

File.stream!("./known_hosts.txt",[],2048) 
|> Enum.reduce(:crypto.hash_init(:sha256),fn(line, acc) -> :crypto.hash_update(acc,line) end ) 
|> :crypto.hash_final 
|> Base.encode16 


#=> "97368E46417DF00CB833C73457D2BE0509C9A404B255D4C70BBDC792D248B4A2" 

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