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1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2 // Name: dir.h
3 // Purpose: interface of wxDir and wxDirTraverser
4 // Author: wxWidgets team
5 // RCS-ID: $Id$
6 // Licence: wxWindows licence
7 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
8
9 /**
10 Possible return values of wxDirTraverser callback functions.
11 */
12 enum wxDirTraverseResult
13 {
14 wxDIR_IGNORE = -1, ///< Ignore this directory but continue with others.
15 wxDIR_STOP, ///< Stop traversing.
16 wxDIR_CONTINUE ///< Continue into this directory.
17 };
18
19 /**
20 @class wxDirTraverser
21
22 wxDirTraverser is an abstract interface which must be implemented by
23 objects passed to wxDir::Traverse() function.
24
25 Example of use (this works almost like wxDir::GetAllFiles()):
26
27 @code
28 class wxDirTraverserSimple : public wxDirTraverser
29 {
30 public:
31 wxDirTraverserSimple(wxArrayString& files) : m_files(files) { }
32
33 virtual wxDirTraverseResult OnFile(const wxString& filename)
34 {
35 m_files.Add(filename);
36 return wxDIR_CONTINUE;
37 }
38
39 virtual wxDirTraverseResult OnDir(const wxString& WXUNUSED(dirname))
40 {
41 return wxDIR_CONTINUE;
42 }
43
44 private:
45 wxArrayString& m_files;
46 };
47
48 // get the names of all files in the array
49 wxArrayString files;
50 wxDirTraverserSimple traverser(files);
51
52 wxDir dir(dirname);
53 dir.Traverse(traverser);
54 @endcode
55
56 @library{wxbase}
57 @category{file}
58 */
59 class wxDirTraverser
60 {
61 public:
62 /**
63 This function is called for each directory. It may return ::wxDIR_STOP
64 to abort traversing completely, ::wxDIR_IGNORE to skip this directory
65 but continue with others or ::wxDIR_CONTINUE to enumerate all files and
66 subdirectories in this directory.
67
68 This is a pure virtual function and must be implemented in the derived
69 class.
70 */
71 virtual wxDirTraverseResult OnDir(const wxString& dirname) = 0;
72
73 /**
74 This function is called for each file. It may return ::wxDIR_STOP to
75 abort traversing (for example, if the file being searched is found) or
76 ::wxDIR_CONTINUE to proceed.
77
78 This is a pure virtual function and must be implemented in the derived
79 class.
80 */
81 virtual wxDirTraverseResult OnFile(const wxString& filename) = 0;
82
83 /**
84 This function is called for each directory which we failed to open for
85 enumerating. It may return ::wxDIR_STOP to abort traversing completely,
86 ::wxDIR_IGNORE to skip this directory but continue with others or
87 ::wxDIR_CONTINUE to retry opening this directory once again.
88
89 The base class version always returns ::wxDIR_IGNORE.
90 */
91 virtual wxDirTraverseResult OnOpenError(const wxString& openerrorname);
92 };
93
94
95
96 /**
97 These flags define what kind of filenames are included in the list of files
98 enumerated by wxDir::GetFirst() and wxDir::GetNext().
99 */
100 enum wxDirFlags
101 {
102 wxDIR_FILES = 0x0001, ///< Includes files.
103 wxDIR_DIRS = 0x0002, ///< Includes directories.
104 wxDIR_HIDDEN = 0x0004, ///< Includes hidden files.
105 wxDIR_DOTDOT = 0x0008, ///< Includes "." and "..".
106
107 //! Combination of the @c wxDIR_FILES, @c wxDIR_DIRS, @c wxDIR_HIDDEN flags
108 //! defined above.
109 wxDIR_DEFAULT = wxDIR_FILES | wxDIR_DIRS | wxDIR_HIDDEN
110 };
111
112 /**
113 @class wxDir
114
115 wxDir is a portable equivalent of Unix open/read/closedir functions which
116 allow enumerating of the files in a directory. wxDir allows to enumerate
117 files as well as directories.
118
119 wxDir also provides a flexible way to enumerate files recursively using
120 Traverse() or a simpler GetAllFiles() function.
121
122 Example of use:
123
124 @code
125 wxDir dir(wxGetCwd());
126
127 if ( !dir.IsOpened() )
128 {
129 // deal with the error here - wxDir would already log an error message
130 // explaining the exact reason of the failure
131 return;
132 }
133
134 puts("Enumerating object files in current directory:");
135
136 wxString filename;
137
138 bool cont = dir.GetFirst(&filename, filespec, flags);
139 while ( cont )
140 {
141 printf("%s\n", filename.c_str());
142
143 cont = dir.GetNext(&filename);
144 }
145 @endcode
146
147 @library{wxbase}
148 @category{file}
149 */
150 class wxDir
151 {
152 public:
153 /**
154 Default constructor, use Open() afterwards.
155 */
156 wxDir();
157 /**
158 Opens the directory for enumeration, use IsOpened() to test for errors.
159 */
160 wxDir(const wxString& dir);
161
162 /**
163 Destructor cleans up the associated resources by calling Close().
164
165 It is not virtual and so this class is not meant to be used
166 polymorphically.
167 */
168 ~wxDir();
169
170 /**
171 Close the directory.
172
173 The object can't be used after closing it, but Open() may be called
174 again to reopen it later.
175
176 @since 2.9.5
177 */
178 void Close();
179
180 /**
181 Test for existence of a directory with the given name.
182 */
183 static bool Exists(const wxString& dir);
184
185 /**
186 The function returns the path of the first file matching the given
187 @a filespec or an empty string if there are no files matching it.
188
189 The @a flags parameter may or may not include ::wxDIR_FILES, the
190 function always behaves as if it were specified. By default, @a flags
191 includes ::wxDIR_DIRS and so the function recurses into the
192 subdirectories but if this flag is not specified, the function
193 restricts the search only to the directory @a dirname itself.
194 See ::wxDirFlags for the list of the possible flags.
195
196 @see Traverse()
197 */
198 static wxString FindFirst(const wxString& dirname,
199 const wxString& filespec,
200 int flags = wxDIR_DEFAULT);
201
202 /**
203 The function appends the names of all the files under directory
204 @a dirname to the array @a files (note that its old content is
205 preserved). Only files matching the @a filespec are taken, with empty
206 spec matching all the files.
207
208 The @a flags parameter should always include ::wxDIR_FILES or the array
209 would be unchanged and should include ::wxDIR_DIRS flag to recurse into
210 subdirectories (both flags are included in the value by default).
211 See ::wxDirFlags for the list of the possible flags.
212
213 @return Returns the total number of files found while traversing
214 the directory @a dirname (i.e. the number of entries appended
215 to the @a files array).
216
217 @see Traverse()
218 */
219 static size_t GetAllFiles(const wxString& dirname, wxArrayString* files,
220 const wxString& filespec = wxEmptyString,
221 int flags = wxDIR_DEFAULT);
222
223 /**
224 Start enumerating all files matching @a filespec (or all files if it is
225 empty) and @e flags, return @true on success.
226 See ::wxDirFlags for the list of the possible flags.
227 */
228 bool GetFirst(wxString* filename,
229 const wxString& filespec = wxEmptyString,
230 int flags = wxDIR_DEFAULT) const;
231
232 /**
233 Returns the name of the directory itself.
234
235 The returned string does not have the trailing path separator (slash or
236 backslash).
237
238 Notice that in spite of this the last character of the returned string
239 can still be the path separator if this directory is the root one.
240 Because of this, don't append ::wxFILE_SEP_PATH to the returned value
241 if you do need a slash-terminated directory name but use
242 GetNameWithSep() instead to avoid having duplicate consecutive slashes.
243 */
244 wxString GetName() const;
245
246 /**
247 Returns the name of the directory with the path separator appended.
248
249 The last character of the returned string is always ::wxFILE_SEP_PATH
250 unless the string is empty, indicating that this directory is invalid.
251
252 @see GetName()
253
254 @since 2.9.4
255 */
256 wxString GetNameWithSep() const;
257
258 /**
259 Continue enumerating files which satisfy the criteria specified by the
260 last call to GetFirst().
261 */
262 bool GetNext(wxString* filename) const;
263
264 /**
265 Returns the size (in bytes) of all files recursively found in @c dir or
266 @c wxInvalidSize in case of error.
267
268 In case it happens that while traversing folders a file's size cannot
269 be read, that file is added to the @a filesSkipped array, if not @NULL,
270 and then skipped. This usually happens with some special folders which
271 are locked by the operating system or by another process. Remember that
272 when the size of @a filesSkipped is not zero, then the returned value
273 is not 100% accurate and, if the skipped files were big, it could be
274 far from real size of the directory.
275
276 @see wxFileName::GetHumanReadableSize(), wxGetDiskSpace()
277 */
278 static wxULongLong GetTotalSize(const wxString& dir,
279 wxArrayString* filesSkipped = NULL);
280
281 /**
282 Returns @true if the directory contains any files matching the given
283 @a filespec. If @a filespec is empty, look for any files at all. In any
284 case, even hidden files are taken into account.
285 */
286 bool HasFiles(const wxString& filespec = wxEmptyString) const;
287
288 /**
289 Returns @true if the directory contains any subdirectories (if a non
290 empty @a filespec is given, only check for directories matching it).
291 The hidden subdirectories are taken into account as well.
292 */
293 bool HasSubDirs(const wxString& dirspec = wxEmptyString) const;
294
295 /**
296 Returns @true if the directory was successfully opened by a previous
297 call to Open().
298 */
299 bool IsOpened() const;
300
301 /**
302 Creates a directory.
303
304 This is just an alias for wxFileName::Mkdir(); refer to that function
305 for more info.
306 */
307 static bool Make(const wxString &dir, int perm = wxS_DIR_DEFAULT,
308 int flags = 0);
309
310 /**
311 Open the directory for enumerating, returns @true on success or @false
312 if an error occurred.
313 */
314 bool Open(const wxString& dir);
315
316 /**
317 Removes a directory.
318
319 This is just an alias for wxFileName::Rmdir(); refer to that function
320 for more info.
321 */
322 static bool Remove(const wxString &dir, int flags = 0);
323
324 /**
325 Enumerate all files and directories under the given directory.
326
327 If @a flags contains ::wxDIR_DIRS this enumeration is recursive, i.e.
328 all the subdirectories of the given one and the files inside them will
329 be traversed. Otherwise only the files in this directory itself are.
330
331 If @a flags doesn't contain ::wxDIR_FILES then only subdirectories are
332 examined but not normal files. It doesn't make sense to not specify
333 either ::wxDIR_DIRS or ::wxDIR_FILES and usually both of them should be
334 specified, as is the case by default.
335
336 For each directory found, @ref wxDirTraverser::OnDir() "sink.OnDir()"
337 is called and @ref wxDirTraverser::OnFile() "sink.OnFile()" is called
338 for every file. Depending on the return value, the enumeration may
339 continue or stop. If entering a subdirectory fails, @ref
340 wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() "sink.OnOpenError()" is called.
341
342 The function returns the total number of files found or @c "(size_t)-1"
343 on error.
344
345 See ::wxDirFlags for the full list of the possible flags.
346
347 @see GetAllFiles()
348 */
349 size_t Traverse(wxDirTraverser& sink,
350 const wxString& filespec = wxEmptyString,
351 int flags = wxDIR_DEFAULT) const;
352 };
353