cards: add methods to help erasing of file contents

Resetting the contents of a file before re-writing it with parameters
might be helpful when implementing the currently empty erase() methods
of the various card implementations. Lets add two methods, one for
resetting a binary file and one for resetting a specific record in a
record oriented file

Change-Id: I3c3a4ef3d3f358404af307a68a20b7059f1a9e8d

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pySim/cards.py b/pySim/cards.py
index 1c0add0..73b0763 100644
--- a/pySim/cards.py
+++ b/pySim/cards.py
@@ -248,6 +248,16 @@ class Card(object):
 
 		return None
 
+	# Erase the contents of a file
+	def erase_binary(self, ef):
+		len = self._scc.binary_size(ef)
+		self._scc.update_binary(ef, "ff" * len, offset=0, verify=True)
+
+	# Erase the contents of a single record
+	def erase_record(self, ef, rec_no):
+		len = self._scc.record_size(ef)
+		self._scc.update_record(ef, rec_no, "ff" * len, force_len=False, verify=True)
+
 
 class _MagicSimBase(Card):
 	"""