1 /* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 8; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */
2 /* vim: set ts=8 sts=2 et sw=2 tw=80: */
3 // Copyright (c) 2008 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
4 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
5 // found in the LICENSE file.
7 // FilePath is a container for pathnames stored in a platform's native string
8 // type, providing containers for manipulation in according with the
9 // platform's conventions for pathnames. It supports the following path
13 // --------------- ----------------------------------
14 // Fundamental type char[] wchar_t[]
15 // Encoding unspecified* UTF-16
16 // Separator / \, tolerant of /
17 // Drive letters no case-insensitive A-Z followed by :
18 // Alternate root // (surprise!) \\, for UNC paths
20 // * The encoding need not be specified on POSIX systems, although some
21 // POSIX-compliant systems do specify an encoding. Mac OS X uses UTF-8.
22 // Linux does not specify an encoding, but in practice, the locale's
23 // character set may be used.
25 // FilePath objects are intended to be used anywhere paths are. An
26 // application may pass FilePath objects around internally, masking the
27 // underlying differences between systems, only differing in implementation
28 // where interfacing directly with the system. For example, a single
29 // OpenFile(const FilePath &) function may be made available, allowing all
30 // callers to operate without regard to the underlying implementation. On
31 // POSIX-like platforms, OpenFile might wrap fopen, and on Windows, it might
32 // wrap _wfopen_s, perhaps both by calling file_path.value().c_str(). This
33 // allows each platform to pass pathnames around without requiring conversions
34 // between encodings, which has an impact on performance, but more imporantly,
35 // has an impact on correctness on platforms that do not have well-defined
36 // encodings for pathnames.
38 // Several methods are available to perform common operations on a FilePath
39 // object, such as determining the parent directory (DirName), isolating the
40 // final path component (BaseName), and appending a relative pathname string
41 // to an existing FilePath object (Append). These methods are highly
42 // recommended over attempting to split and concatenate strings directly.
43 // These methods are based purely on string manipulation and knowledge of
44 // platform-specific pathname conventions, and do not consult the filesystem
45 // at all, making them safe to use without fear of blocking on I/O operations.
46 // These methods do not function as mutators but instead return distinct
47 // instances of FilePath objects, and are therefore safe to use on const
48 // objects. The objects themselves are safe to share between threads.
50 // To aid in initialization of FilePath objects from string literals, a
51 // FILE_PATH_LITERAL macro is provided, which accounts for the difference
52 // between char[]-based pathnames on POSIX systems and wchar_t[]-based
53 // pathnames on Windows.
55 // Because a FilePath object should not be instantiated at the global scope,
56 // instead, use a FilePath::CharType[] and initialize it with
57 // FILE_PATH_LITERAL. At runtime, a FilePath object can be created from the
58 // character array. Example:
60 // | const FilePath::CharType kLogFileName[] = FILE_PATH_LITERAL("log.txt");
62 // | void Function() {
63 // | FilePath log_file_path(kLogFileName);
67 #ifndef BASE_FILE_PATH_H_
68 #define BASE_FILE_PATH_H_
72 #include "base/basictypes.h"
74 // Windows-style drive letter support and pathname separator characters can be
75 // enabled and disabled independently, to aid testing. These #defines are
76 // here so that the same setting can be used in both the implementation and
79 # define FILE_PATH_USES_DRIVE_LETTERS
80 # define FILE_PATH_USES_WIN_SEPARATORS
83 // An abstraction to isolate users from the differences between native
84 // pathnames on different platforms.
88 // On most platforms, native pathnames are char arrays, and the encoding
89 // may or may not be specified. On Mac OS X, native pathnames are encoded
91 typedef std::string StringType
;
93 // On Windows, for Unicode-aware applications, native pathnames are wchar_t
94 // arrays encoded in UTF-16.
95 typedef std::wstring StringType
;
98 typedef StringType::value_type CharType
;
100 // Null-terminated array of separators used to separate components in
101 // hierarchical paths. Each character in this array is a valid separator,
102 // but kSeparators[0] is treated as the canonical separator and will be used
103 // when composing pathnames.
104 static const CharType kSeparators
[];
106 // A special path component meaning "this directory."
107 static const CharType kCurrentDirectory
[];
109 // A special path component meaning "the parent directory."
110 static const CharType kParentDirectory
[];
112 // The character used to identify a file extension.
113 static const CharType kExtensionSeparator
;
116 FilePath(const FilePath
& that
) : path_(that
.path_
) {}
117 explicit FilePath(const StringType
& path
) : path_(path
) {}
120 explicit FilePath(const wchar_t* path
) : path_(path
) {}
123 FilePath
& operator=(const FilePath
& that
) {
128 bool operator==(const FilePath
& that
) const { return path_
== that
.path_
; }
130 bool operator!=(const FilePath
& that
) const { return path_
!= that
.path_
; }
132 // Required for some STL containers and operations
133 bool operator<(const FilePath
& that
) const { return path_
< that
.path_
; }
135 const StringType
& value() const { return path_
; }
137 bool empty() const { return path_
.empty(); }
139 // Returns true if |character| is in kSeparators.
140 static bool IsSeparator(CharType character
);
142 // Returns a FilePath corresponding to the directory containing the path
143 // named by this object, stripping away the file component. If this object
144 // only contains one component, returns a FilePath identifying
145 // kCurrentDirectory. If this object already refers to the root directory,
146 // returns a FilePath identifying the root directory.
147 FilePath
DirName() const;
149 // Returns a FilePath corresponding to the last path component of this
150 // object, either a file or a directory. If this object already refers to
151 // the root directory, returns a FilePath identifying the root directory;
152 // this is the only situation in which BaseName will return an absolute path.
153 FilePath
BaseName() const;
155 // Returns ".jpg" for path "C:\pics\jojo.jpg", or an empty string if
156 // the file has no extension. If non-empty, Extension() will always start
157 // with precisely one ".". The following code should always work regardless
158 // of the value of path.
159 // new_path = path.RemoveExtension().value().append(path.Extension());
160 // ASSERT(new_path == path.value());
161 // NOTE: this is different from the original file_util implementation which
162 // returned the extension without a leading "." ("jpg" instead of ".jpg")
163 StringType
Extension() const;
165 // Returns "C:\pics\jojo" for path "C:\pics\jojo.jpg"
166 // NOTE: this is slightly different from the similar file_util implementation
167 // which returned simply 'jojo'.
168 FilePath
RemoveExtension() const;
170 // Inserts |suffix| after the file name portion of |path| but before the
171 // extension. Returns "" if BaseName() == "." or "..".
173 // path == "C:\pics\jojo.jpg" suffix == " (1)", returns "C:\pics\jojo (1).jpg"
174 // path == "jojo.jpg" suffix == " (1)", returns "jojo (1).jpg"
175 // path == "C:\pics\jojo" suffix == " (1)", returns "C:\pics\jojo (1)"
176 // path == "C:\pics.old\jojo" suffix == " (1)", returns "C:\pics.old\jojo (1)"
177 FilePath
InsertBeforeExtension(const StringType
& suffix
) const;
179 // Replaces the extension of |file_name| with |extension|. If |file_name|
180 // does not have an extension, them |extension| is added. If |extension| is
181 // empty, then the extension is removed from |file_name|.
182 // Returns "" if BaseName() == "." or "..".
183 FilePath
ReplaceExtension(const StringType
& extension
) const;
185 // Returns a FilePath by appending a separator and the supplied path
186 // component to this object's path. Append takes care to avoid adding
187 // excessive separators if this object's path already ends with a separator.
188 // If this object's path is kCurrentDirectory, a new FilePath corresponding
189 // only to |component| is returned. |component| must be a relative path;
190 // it is an error to pass an absolute path.
191 [[nodiscard
]] FilePath
Append(const StringType
& component
) const;
192 [[nodiscard
]] FilePath
Append(const FilePath
& component
) const;
194 // Although Windows StringType is std::wstring, since the encoding it uses for
195 // paths is well defined, it can handle ASCII path components as well.
196 // Mac uses UTF8, and since ASCII is a subset of that, it works there as well.
197 // On Linux, although it can use any 8-bit encoding for paths, we assume that
198 // ASCII is a valid subset, regardless of the encoding, since many operating
199 // system paths will always be ASCII.
200 [[nodiscard
]] FilePath
AppendASCII(const std::string
& component
) const;
202 // Returns true if this FilePath contains an absolute path. On Windows, an
203 // absolute path begins with either a drive letter specification followed by
204 // a separator character, or with two separator characters. On POSIX
205 // platforms, an absolute path begins with a separator character.
206 bool IsAbsolute() const;
208 // Returns a copy of this FilePath that does not end with a trailing
210 FilePath
StripTrailingSeparators() const;
212 // Calls open on given ifstream instance
213 void OpenInputStream(std::ifstream
& stream
) const;
215 // Older Chromium code assumes that paths are always wstrings.
216 // This function converts a wstring to a FilePath, and is useful to smooth
217 // porting that old code to the FilePath API.
218 // It has "Hack" in its name so people feel bad about using it.
219 // TODO(port): remove these functions.
220 static FilePath
FromWStringHack(const std::wstring
& wstring
);
222 // Older Chromium code assumes that paths are always wstrings.
223 // This function produces a wstring from a FilePath, and is useful to smooth
224 // porting that old code to the FilePath API.
225 // It has "Hack" in its name so people feel bad about using it.
226 // TODO(port): remove these functions.
227 std::wstring
ToWStringHack() const;
230 // Remove trailing separators from this object. If the path is absolute, it
231 // will never be stripped any more than to refer to the absolute root
232 // directory, so "////" will become "/", not "". A leading pair of
233 // separators is never stripped, to support alternate roots. This is used to
234 // support UNC paths on Windows.
235 void StripTrailingSeparatorsInternal();
240 // Macros for string literal initialization of FilePath::CharType[].
242 # define FILE_PATH_LITERAL(x) x
244 # define FILE_PATH_LITERAL(x) L##x
247 #endif // BASE_FILE_PATH_H_