1 // Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
3 // found in the LICENSE file.
5 // FilePath is a container for pathnames stored in a platform's native string
6 // type, providing containers for manipulation in according with the
7 // platform's conventions for pathnames. It supports the following path
11 // --------------- ----------------------------------
12 // Fundamental type char[] wchar_t[]
13 // Encoding unspecified* UTF-16
14 // Separator / \, tolerant of /
15 // Drive letters no case-insensitive A-Z followed by :
16 // Alternate root // (surprise!) \\, for UNC paths
18 // * The encoding need not be specified on POSIX systems, although some
19 // POSIX-compliant systems do specify an encoding. Mac OS X uses UTF-8.
20 // Chrome OS also uses UTF-8.
21 // Linux does not specify an encoding, but in practice, the locale's
22 // character set may be used.
24 // For more arcane bits of path trivia, see below.
26 // FilePath objects are intended to be used anywhere paths are. An
27 // application may pass FilePath objects around internally, masking the
28 // underlying differences between systems, only differing in implementation
29 // where interfacing directly with the system. For example, a single
30 // OpenFile(const FilePath &) function may be made available, allowing all
31 // callers to operate without regard to the underlying implementation. On
32 // POSIX-like platforms, OpenFile might wrap fopen, and on Windows, it might
33 // wrap _wfopen_s, perhaps both by calling file_path.value().c_str(). This
34 // allows each platform to pass pathnames around without requiring conversions
35 // between encodings, which has an impact on performance, but more imporantly,
36 // has an impact on correctness on platforms that do not have well-defined
37 // encodings for pathnames.
39 // Several methods are available to perform common operations on a FilePath
40 // object, such as determining the parent directory (DirName), isolating the
41 // final path component (BaseName), and appending a relative pathname string
42 // to an existing FilePath object (Append). These methods are highly
43 // recommended over attempting to split and concatenate strings directly.
44 // These methods are based purely on string manipulation and knowledge of
45 // platform-specific pathname conventions, and do not consult the filesystem
46 // at all, making them safe to use without fear of blocking on I/O operations.
47 // These methods do not function as mutators but instead return distinct
48 // instances of FilePath objects, and are therefore safe to use on const
49 // objects. The objects themselves are safe to share between threads.
51 // To aid in initialization of FilePath objects from string literals, a
52 // FILE_PATH_LITERAL macro is provided, which accounts for the difference
53 // between char[]-based pathnames on POSIX systems and wchar_t[]-based
54 // pathnames on Windows.
56 // As a precaution against premature truncation, paths can't contain NULs.
58 // Because a FilePath object should not be instantiated at the global scope,
59 // instead, use a FilePath::CharType[] and initialize it with
60 // FILE_PATH_LITERAL. At runtime, a FilePath object can be created from the
61 // character array. Example:
63 // | const FilePath::CharType kLogFileName[] = FILE_PATH_LITERAL("log.txt");
65 // | void Function() {
66 // | FilePath log_file_path(kLogFileName);
70 // WARNING: FilePaths should ALWAYS be displayed with LTR directionality, even
71 // when the UI language is RTL. This means you always need to pass filepaths
72 // through base::i18n::WrapPathWithLTRFormatting() before displaying it in the
75 // This is a very common source of bugs, please try to keep this in mind.
77 // ARCANE BITS OF PATH TRIVIA
79 // - A double leading slash is actually part of the POSIX standard. Systems
80 // are allowed to treat // as an alternate root, as Windows does for UNC
81 // (network share) paths. Most POSIX systems don't do anything special
82 // with two leading slashes, but FilePath handles this case properly
83 // in case it ever comes across such a system. FilePath needs this support
84 // for Windows UNC paths, anyway.
86 // The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, sections 3.267 ("Pathname")
87 // and 4.12 ("Pathname Resolution"), available at:
88 // http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap03.html#tag_03_267
89 // http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap04.html#tag_04_12
91 // - Windows treats c:\\ the same way it treats \\. This was intended to
92 // allow older applications that require drive letters to support UNC paths
93 // like \\server\share\path, by permitting c:\\server\share\path as an
94 // equivalent. Since the OS treats these paths specially, FilePath needs
95 // to do the same. Since Windows can use either / or \ as the separator,
96 // FilePath treats c://, c:\\, //, and \\ all equivalently.
98 // The Old New Thing, "Why is a drive letter permitted in front of UNC
99 // paths (sometimes)?", available at:
100 // http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/11/22/495740.aspx
102 #ifndef BASE_FILES_FILE_PATH_H_
103 #define BASE_FILES_FILE_PATH_H_
111 #include "base/base_export.h"
112 #include "base/compiler_specific.h"
113 #include "base/containers/hash_tables.h"
114 #include "base/strings/string16.h"
115 #include "base/strings/string_piece.h" // For implicit conversions.
116 #include "build/build_config.h"
118 // Windows-style drive letter support and pathname separator characters can be
119 // enabled and disabled independently, to aid testing. These #defines are
120 // here so that the same setting can be used in both the implementation and
123 #define FILE_PATH_USES_DRIVE_LETTERS
124 #define FILE_PATH_USES_WIN_SEPARATORS
130 class PickleIterator
;
132 // An abstraction to isolate users from the differences between native
133 // pathnames on different platforms.
134 class BASE_EXPORT FilePath
{
136 #if defined(OS_POSIX)
137 // On most platforms, native pathnames are char arrays, and the encoding
138 // may or may not be specified. On Mac OS X, native pathnames are encoded
140 typedef std::string StringType
;
141 #elif defined(OS_WIN)
142 // On Windows, for Unicode-aware applications, native pathnames are wchar_t
143 // arrays encoded in UTF-16.
144 typedef std::wstring StringType
;
147 typedef StringType::value_type CharType
;
149 // Null-terminated array of separators used to separate components in
150 // hierarchical paths. Each character in this array is a valid separator,
151 // but kSeparators[0] is treated as the canonical separator and will be used
152 // when composing pathnames.
153 static const CharType kSeparators
[];
155 // arraysize(kSeparators).
156 static const size_t kSeparatorsLength
;
158 // A special path component meaning "this directory."
159 static const CharType kCurrentDirectory
[];
161 // A special path component meaning "the parent directory."
162 static const CharType kParentDirectory
[];
164 // The character used to identify a file extension.
165 static const CharType kExtensionSeparator
;
168 FilePath(const FilePath
& that
);
169 explicit FilePath(const StringType
& path
);
171 FilePath
& operator=(const FilePath
& that
);
173 bool operator==(const FilePath
& that
) const;
175 bool operator!=(const FilePath
& that
) const;
177 // Required for some STL containers and operations
178 bool operator<(const FilePath
& that
) const {
179 return path_
< that
.path_
;
182 const StringType
& value() const { return path_
; }
184 bool empty() const { return path_
.empty(); }
186 void clear() { path_
.clear(); }
188 // Returns true if |character| is in kSeparators.
189 static bool IsSeparator(CharType character
);
191 // Returns a vector of all of the components of the provided path. It is
192 // equivalent to calling DirName().value() on the path's root component,
193 // and BaseName().value() on each child component.
195 // To make sure this is lossless so we can differentiate absolute and
196 // relative paths, the root slash will be included even though no other
197 // slashes will be. The precise behavior is:
199 // Posix: "/foo/bar" -> [ "/", "foo", "bar" ]
200 // Windows: "C:\foo\bar" -> [ "C:", "\\", "foo", "bar" ]
201 void GetComponents(std::vector
<FilePath::StringType
>* components
) const;
203 // Returns true if this FilePath is a strict parent of the |child|. Absolute
204 // and relative paths are accepted i.e. is /foo parent to /foo/bar and
205 // is foo parent to foo/bar. Does not convert paths to absolute, follow
206 // symlinks or directory navigation (e.g. ".."). A path is *NOT* its own
208 bool IsParent(const FilePath
& child
) const;
210 // If IsParent(child) holds, appends to path (if non-NULL) the
211 // relative path to child and returns true. For example, if parent
212 // holds "/Users/johndoe/Library/Application Support", child holds
213 // "/Users/johndoe/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default", and
214 // *path holds "/Users/johndoe/Library/Caches", then after
215 // parent.AppendRelativePath(child, path) is called *path will hold
216 // "/Users/johndoe/Library/Caches/Google/Chrome/Default". Otherwise,
218 bool AppendRelativePath(const FilePath
& child
, FilePath
* path
) const;
220 // Returns a FilePath corresponding to the directory containing the path
221 // named by this object, stripping away the file component. If this object
222 // only contains one component, returns a FilePath identifying
223 // kCurrentDirectory. If this object already refers to the root directory,
224 // returns a FilePath identifying the root directory.
225 FilePath
DirName() const WARN_UNUSED_RESULT
;
227 // Returns a FilePath corresponding to the last path component of this
228 // object, either a file or a directory. If this object already refers to
229 // the root directory, returns a FilePath identifying the root directory;
230 // this is the only situation in which BaseName will return an absolute path.
231 FilePath
BaseName() const WARN_UNUSED_RESULT
;
233 // Returns ".jpg" for path "C:\pics\jojo.jpg", or an empty string if
234 // the file has no extension. If non-empty, Extension() will always start
235 // with precisely one ".". The following code should always work regardless
236 // of the value of path. For common double-extensions like .tar.gz and
237 // .user.js, this method returns the combined extension. For a single
238 // component, use FinalExtension().
239 // new_path = path.RemoveExtension().value().append(path.Extension());
240 // ASSERT(new_path == path.value());
241 // NOTE: this is different from the original file_util implementation which
242 // returned the extension without a leading "." ("jpg" instead of ".jpg")
243 StringType
Extension() const WARN_UNUSED_RESULT
;
245 // Returns the path's file extension, as in Extension(), but will
246 // never return a double extension.
248 // TODO(davidben): Check all our extension-sensitive code to see if
249 // we can rename this to Extension() and the other to something like
250 // LongExtension(), defaulting to short extensions and leaving the
251 // long "extensions" to logic like base::GetUniquePathNumber().
252 StringType
FinalExtension() const WARN_UNUSED_RESULT
;
254 // Returns "C:\pics\jojo" for path "C:\pics\jojo.jpg"
255 // NOTE: this is slightly different from the similar file_util implementation
256 // which returned simply 'jojo'.
257 FilePath
RemoveExtension() const WARN_UNUSED_RESULT
;
259 // Removes the path's file extension, as in RemoveExtension(), but
260 // ignores double extensions.
261 FilePath
RemoveFinalExtension() const WARN_UNUSED_RESULT
;
263 // Inserts |suffix| after the file name portion of |path| but before the
264 // extension. Returns "" if BaseName() == "." or "..".
266 // path == "C:\pics\jojo.jpg" suffix == " (1)", returns "C:\pics\jojo (1).jpg"
267 // path == "jojo.jpg" suffix == " (1)", returns "jojo (1).jpg"
268 // path == "C:\pics\jojo" suffix == " (1)", returns "C:\pics\jojo (1)"
269 // path == "C:\pics.old\jojo" suffix == " (1)", returns "C:\pics.old\jojo (1)"
270 FilePath
InsertBeforeExtension(
271 const StringType
& suffix
) const WARN_UNUSED_RESULT
;
272 FilePath
InsertBeforeExtensionASCII(
273 const base::StringPiece
& suffix
) const WARN_UNUSED_RESULT
;
275 // Adds |extension| to |file_name|. Returns the current FilePath if
276 // |extension| is empty. Returns "" if BaseName() == "." or "..".
277 FilePath
AddExtension(
278 const StringType
& extension
) const WARN_UNUSED_RESULT
;
280 // Replaces the extension of |file_name| with |extension|. If |file_name|
281 // does not have an extension, then |extension| is added. If |extension| is
282 // empty, then the extension is removed from |file_name|.
283 // Returns "" if BaseName() == "." or "..".
284 FilePath
ReplaceExtension(
285 const StringType
& extension
) const WARN_UNUSED_RESULT
;
287 // Returns true if the file path matches the specified extension. The test is
288 // case insensitive. Don't forget the leading period if appropriate.
289 bool MatchesExtension(const StringType
& extension
) const;
291 // Returns a FilePath by appending a separator and the supplied path
292 // component to this object's path. Append takes care to avoid adding
293 // excessive separators if this object's path already ends with a separator.
294 // If this object's path is kCurrentDirectory, a new FilePath corresponding
295 // only to |component| is returned. |component| must be a relative path;
296 // it is an error to pass an absolute path.
297 FilePath
Append(const StringType
& component
) const WARN_UNUSED_RESULT
;
298 FilePath
Append(const FilePath
& component
) const WARN_UNUSED_RESULT
;
300 // Although Windows StringType is std::wstring, since the encoding it uses for
301 // paths is well defined, it can handle ASCII path components as well.
302 // Mac uses UTF8, and since ASCII is a subset of that, it works there as well.
303 // On Linux, although it can use any 8-bit encoding for paths, we assume that
304 // ASCII is a valid subset, regardless of the encoding, since many operating
305 // system paths will always be ASCII.
306 FilePath
AppendASCII(const base::StringPiece
& component
)
307 const WARN_UNUSED_RESULT
;
309 // Returns true if this FilePath contains an absolute path. On Windows, an
310 // absolute path begins with either a drive letter specification followed by
311 // a separator character, or with two separator characters. On POSIX
312 // platforms, an absolute path begins with a separator character.
313 bool IsAbsolute() const;
315 // Returns true if the patch ends with a path separator character.
316 bool EndsWithSeparator() const WARN_UNUSED_RESULT
;
318 // Returns a copy of this FilePath that ends with a trailing separator. If
319 // the input path is empty, an empty FilePath will be returned.
320 FilePath
AsEndingWithSeparator() const WARN_UNUSED_RESULT
;
322 // Returns a copy of this FilePath that does not end with a trailing
324 FilePath
StripTrailingSeparators() const WARN_UNUSED_RESULT
;
326 // Returns true if this FilePath contains an attempt to reference a parent
327 // directory (e.g. has a path component that is "..").
328 bool ReferencesParent() const;
330 // Return a Unicode human-readable version of this path.
331 // Warning: you can *not*, in general, go from a display name back to a real
332 // path. Only use this when displaying paths to users, not just when you
333 // want to stuff a string16 into some other API.
334 string16
LossyDisplayName() const;
336 // Return the path as ASCII, or the empty string if the path is not ASCII.
337 // This should only be used for cases where the FilePath is representing a
338 // known-ASCII filename.
339 std::string
MaybeAsASCII() const;
341 // Return the path as UTF-8.
343 // This function is *unsafe* as there is no way to tell what encoding is
344 // used in file names on POSIX systems other than Mac and Chrome OS,
345 // although UTF-8 is practically used everywhere these days. To mitigate
346 // the encoding issue, this function internally calls
347 // SysNativeMBToWide() on POSIX systems other than Mac and Chrome OS,
348 // per assumption that the current locale's encoding is used in file
349 // names, but this isn't a perfect solution.
351 // Once it becomes safe to to stop caring about non-UTF-8 file names,
352 // the SysNativeMBToWide() hack will be removed from the code, along
353 // with "Unsafe" in the function name.
354 std::string
AsUTF8Unsafe() const;
356 // Similar to AsUTF8Unsafe, but returns UTF-16 instead.
357 string16
AsUTF16Unsafe() const;
359 // Returns a FilePath object from a path name in UTF-8. This function
360 // should only be used for cases where you are sure that the input
363 // Like AsUTF8Unsafe(), this function is unsafe. This function
364 // internally calls SysWideToNativeMB() on POSIX systems other than Mac
365 // and Chrome OS, to mitigate the encoding issue. See the comment at
366 // AsUTF8Unsafe() for details.
367 static FilePath
FromUTF8Unsafe(const std::string
& utf8
);
369 // Similar to FromUTF8Unsafe, but accepts UTF-16 instead.
370 static FilePath
FromUTF16Unsafe(const string16
& utf16
);
372 void WriteToPickle(Pickle
* pickle
) const;
373 bool ReadFromPickle(PickleIterator
* iter
);
375 // Normalize all path separators to backslash on Windows
376 // (if FILE_PATH_USES_WIN_SEPARATORS is true), or do nothing on POSIX systems.
377 FilePath
NormalizePathSeparators() const;
379 // Normalize all path separattors to given type on Windows
380 // (if FILE_PATH_USES_WIN_SEPARATORS is true), or do nothing on POSIX systems.
381 FilePath
NormalizePathSeparatorsTo(CharType separator
) const;
383 // Compare two strings in the same way the file system does.
384 // Note that these always ignore case, even on file systems that are case-
385 // sensitive. If case-sensitive comparison is ever needed, add corresponding
387 // The methods are written as a static method so that they can also be used
388 // on parts of a file path, e.g., just the extension.
389 // CompareIgnoreCase() returns -1, 0 or 1 for less-than, equal-to and
390 // greater-than respectively.
391 static int CompareIgnoreCase(const StringType
& string1
,
392 const StringType
& string2
);
393 static bool CompareEqualIgnoreCase(const StringType
& string1
,
394 const StringType
& string2
) {
395 return CompareIgnoreCase(string1
, string2
) == 0;
397 static bool CompareLessIgnoreCase(const StringType
& string1
,
398 const StringType
& string2
) {
399 return CompareIgnoreCase(string1
, string2
) < 0;
402 #if defined(OS_MACOSX)
403 // Returns the string in the special canonical decomposed form as defined for
404 // HFS, which is close to, but not quite, decomposition form D. See
405 // http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn/tn1150.html#UnicodeSubtleties
406 // for further comments.
407 // Returns the epmty string if the conversion failed.
408 static StringType
GetHFSDecomposedForm(const FilePath::StringType
& string
);
410 // Special UTF-8 version of FastUnicodeCompare. Cf:
411 // http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn/tn1150.html#StringComparisonAlgorithm
412 // IMPORTANT: The input strings must be in the special HFS decomposed form!
413 // (cf. above GetHFSDecomposedForm method)
414 static int HFSFastUnicodeCompare(const StringType
& string1
,
415 const StringType
& string2
);
418 #if defined(OS_ANDROID)
419 // On android, file selection dialog can return a file with content uri
420 // scheme(starting with content://). Content uri needs to be opened with
421 // ContentResolver to guarantee that the app has appropriate permissions
423 // Returns true if the path is a content uri, or false otherwise.
424 bool IsContentUri() const;
428 // Remove trailing separators from this object. If the path is absolute, it
429 // will never be stripped any more than to refer to the absolute root
430 // directory, so "////" will become "/", not "". A leading pair of
431 // separators is never stripped, to support alternate roots. This is used to
432 // support UNC paths on Windows.
433 void StripTrailingSeparatorsInternal();
438 // This is required by googletest to print a readable output on test failures.
439 // This is declared here for use in gtest-based unit tests but is defined in
440 // the test_support_base target. Depend on that to use this in your unit test.
441 // This should not be used in production code - call ToString() instead.
442 void PrintTo(const FilePath
& path
, std::ostream
* out
);
446 // Macros for string literal initialization of FilePath::CharType[], and for
447 // using a FilePath::CharType[] in a printf-style format string.
448 #if defined(OS_POSIX)
449 #define FILE_PATH_LITERAL(x) x
450 #define PRFilePath "s"
451 #elif defined(OS_WIN)
452 #define FILE_PATH_LITERAL(x) L ## x
453 #define PRFilePath "ls"
456 // Provide a hash function so that hash_sets and maps can contain FilePath
458 namespace BASE_HASH_NAMESPACE
{
461 struct hash
<base::FilePath
> {
462 size_t operator()(const base::FilePath
& f
) const {
463 return hash
<base::FilePath::StringType
>()(f
.value());
467 } // namespace BASE_HASH_NAMESPACE
469 #endif // BASE_FILES_FILE_PATH_H_