// Purpose: interface of wxFileName
// Author: wxWidgets team
// RCS-ID: $Id$
-// Licence: wxWindows license
+// Licence: wxWindows licence
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
wxPATH_MAX //!< Not a valid value for specifying path format
};
+/**
+ Different conventions for human readable sizes.
+
+ @see wxFileName::GetHumanReadableSize().
+
+ @since 2.9.1
+*/
+enum wxSizeConvention
+{
+ /// 1024 bytes = 1KB.
+ wxSIZE_CONV_TRADITIONAL,
+
+ /// 1024 bytes = 1KiB.
+ wxSIZE_CONV_IEC,
+
+ /// 1000 bytes = 1KB.
+ wxSIZE_CONV_SI
+};
+
/**
The kind of normalization to do with the file name: these values can be
//! and in addition under Windows @c "%var%" is also.
wxPATH_NORM_ENV_VARS = 0x0001,
- wxPATH_NORM_DOTS = 0x0002, //!< Squeeze all @c ".." and @c "." and prepend the current working directory.
+ wxPATH_NORM_DOTS = 0x0002, //!< Squeeze all @c ".." and @c ".".
wxPATH_NORM_TILDE = 0x0004, //!< Replace @c "~" and @c "~user" (Unix only).
wxPATH_NORM_CASE = 0x0008, //!< If the platform is case insensitive, make lowercase the path.
wxPATH_NORM_ABSOLUTE = 0x0010, //!< Make the path absolute.
wxPATH_RMDIR_RECURSIVE = 2
};
+/**
+ Flags for wxFileName::Exists().
+
+ @since 2.9.5
+ */
+enum
+{
+ wxFILE_EXISTS_REGULAR = 0x0001, //!< Check for existence of a regular file
+ wxFILE_EXISTS_DIR = 0x0002, //!< Check for existence of a directory
+ /**
+ Check for existence of a symlink.
+
+ Notice that this flag also sets ::wxFILE_EXISTS_NO_FOLLOW, otherwise it
+ would never be satisfied as wxFileName::Exists() would be checking for
+ the existence of the symlink target and not the symlink itself.
+ */
+ wxFILE_EXISTS_SYMLINK = 0x1004,
+ wxFILE_EXISTS_DEVICE = 0x0008, //!< Check for existence of a device
+ wxFILE_EXISTS_FIFO = 0x0016, //!< Check for existence of a FIFO
+ wxFILE_EXISTS_SOCKET = 0x0032, //!< Check for existence of a socket
+ wxFILE_EXISTS_NO_FOLLOW = 0x1000 //!< Don't dereference a contained symbolic link
+ wxFILE_EXISTS_ANY = 0x1FFF, //!< Check for existence of anything
+};
+
/**
The return value of wxFileName::GetSize() in case of error.
*/
wxFileName::IsDirReadable() use wxFileName::GetPath() whereas methods dealing
with file names like wxFileName::IsFileReadable() use wxFileName::GetFullPath().
- If it is not known wether a string contains a directory name or a complete
+ If it is not known whether a string contains a directory name or a complete
file name (such as when interpreting user input) you need to use the static
function wxFileName::DirExists() (or its identical variants wxDir::Exists() and
wxDirExists()) and construct the wxFileName instance accordingly.
wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
/**
- Appends a directory component to the path. This component should contain a
- single directory name level, i.e. not contain any path or volume separators nor
- should it be empty, otherwise the function does nothing (and generates an
- assert failure in debug build).
+ Appends a directory component to the path.
+
+ This component should contain a single directory name level, i.e. not
+ contain any path or volume separators nor should it be empty, otherwise
+ the function does nothing and returns false (and generates an assert
+ failure in debug build).
+
+ Notice that the return value is only available in wxWidgets 2.9.5 or
+ later.
*/
- void AppendDir(const wxString& dir);
+ bool AppendDir(const wxString& dir);
/**
Creates the file name from another filename object.
wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
/**
- Creates the file name from volumne, path, name and extension.
+ Creates the file name from volume, path, name and extension.
*/
void Assign(const wxString& volume, const wxString& path,
const wxString& name,
wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
/**
- Creates the file name from volumne, path, name and extension.
+ Creates the file name from volume, path, name and extension.
*/
void Assign(const wxString& volume, const wxString& path,
const wxString& name,
*/
void ClearExt();
- //@{
+
/**
Returns a temporary file name starting with the given @e prefix.
- If the @a prefix is an absolute path, the temporary file is created in this
- directory, otherwise it is created in the default system directory for the
- temporary files or in the current directory.
+ If @a prefix is an absolute path and ends in a separator, the
+ temporary file is created in this directory; if it is an absolute
+ filepath or there is no separator, the temporary file is created in its
+ path, with the 'name' segment prepended to the temporary filename;
+ otherwise it is created in the default system directory for temporary
+ files or in the current directory.
If the function succeeds, the temporary file is actually created.
- If @a fileTemp is not @NULL, this file will be opened using the name of
- the temporary file. When possible, this is done in an atomic way ensuring that
- no race condition occurs between the temporary file name generation and opening
- it which could often lead to security compromise on the multiuser systems.
- If @a fileTemp is @NULL, the file is only created, but not opened.
+ If @a fileTemp is not @NULL, this wxFile will be opened using the name of
+ the temporary file. Where possible this is done in an atomic way to ensure that
+ no race condition occurs between creating the temporary file name and opening
+ it, which might lead to a security compromise on multiuser systems.
+ If @a fileTemp is @NULL, the file is created but not opened.
Under Unix, the temporary file will have read and write permissions for the
- owner only to minimize the security problems.
+ owner only, to minimize security problems.
@param prefix
- Prefix to use for the temporary file name construction
+ Location to use for the temporary file name construction. If @a prefix
+ is a directory it must have a terminal separator
@param fileTemp
- The file to open or @NULL to just get the name
+ The file to open, or @NULL just to get the name
- @return The full temporary file name or an empty string on error.
+ @return The full temporary filepath, or an empty string on error.
*/
static wxString CreateTempFileName(const wxString& prefix,
wxFile* fileTemp = NULL);
+
+ /**
+ This is the same as CreateTempFileName(const wxString &prefix, wxFile *fileTemp)
+ but takes a wxFFile parameter instead of wxFile.
+ */
static wxString CreateTempFileName(const wxString& prefix,
wxFFile* fileTemp = NULL);
- //@}
+
/**
Returns @true if the directory with this name exists.
+
+ Notice that this function tests the directory part of this object,
+ i.e. the string returned by GetPath(), and not the full path returned
+ by GetFullPath().
+
+ @see FileExists(), Exists()
*/
bool DirExists() const;
/**
- Returns @true if the directory with this name exists.
+ Returns @true if the directory with name @a dir exists.
+
+ @see FileExists(), Exists()
*/
static bool DirExists(const wxString& dir);
static wxFileName DirName(const wxString& dir,
wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
+ /**
+ Turns off symlink dereferencing.
+
+ By default, all operations in this class work on the target of a
+ symbolic link (symlink) if the path of the file is actually a symlink.
+ Using this method allows to turn off this "symlink following" behaviour
+ and apply the operations to this path itself, even if it is a symlink.
+
+ The following methods are currently affected by this option:
+ - GetTimes() (but not SetTimes() as there is no portable way to
+ change the time of symlink itself).
+ - Existence checks: FileExists(), DirExists() and Exists() (notice
+ that static versions of these methods always follow symlinks).
+ - IsSameAs().
+
+ @see ShouldFollowLink()
+
+ @since 2.9.5
+ */
+ void DontFollowLink();
+
+ /**
+ Calls the static overload of this function with the full path of this
+ object.
+
+ @since 2.9.4 (@a flags is new since 2.9.5)
+ */
+ bool Exists(int flags = wxFILE_EXISTS_ANY) const;
+
+ /**
+ Returns @true if either a file or a directory or something else with
+ this name exists in the file system.
+
+ Don't dereference @a path if it is a symbolic link and @a flags
+ argument contains ::wxFILE_EXISTS_NO_FOLLOW.
+
+ This method is equivalent to @code FileExists() || DirExists() @endcode
+ under Windows, but under Unix it also returns true if the file
+ identifies a special file system object such as a device, a socket or a
+ FIFO.
+
+ Alternatively you may check for the existence of a file system entry of
+ a specific type by passing the appropriate @a flags (this parameter is
+ new since wxWidgets 2.9.5). E.g. to test for a symbolic link existence
+ you could use ::wxFILE_EXISTS_SYMLINK.
+
+ @since 2.9.4
+
+ @see FileExists(), DirExists()
+ */
+ static bool Exists(const wxString& path, int flags = wxFILE_EXISTS_ANY);
+
/**
Returns @true if the file with this name exists.
- @see DirExists()
+ @see DirExists(), Exists()
*/
bool FileExists() const;
/**
- Returns @true if the file with this name exists.
+ Returns @true if the file with name @a file exists.
- @see DirExists()
+ @see DirExists(), Exists()
*/
static bool FileExists(const wxString& file);
*/
static wxString GetHomeDir();
+ //@{
/**
- Returns the size of the file in a human-readable form.
-
- If the size could not be retrieved the @c failmsg string
- is returned. In case of success, the returned string is
- a floating-point number with @c precision decimal digits
- followed by the size unit (B, kB, MB, GB, TB: respectively
- bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes).
- */
- wxString GetHumanReadableSize(const wxString& failmsg = "Not available",
- int precision = 1) const;
-
- /**
- Returns the size of the given number of bytes in a human-readable form.
-
- If @a bytes is ::wxInvalidSize or zero, then @a nullsize is returned.
-
- In case of success, the returned string is a floating-point number with
- @a precision decimal digits followed by the size unit (B, kB, MB, GB,
- TB: respectively bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes).
- */
- static wxString GetHumanReadableSize(const wxULongLong& bytes,
- const wxString& nullsize = "Not available",
- int precision = 1);
+ Returns the representation of the file size in a human-readable form.
+
+ In the first version, the size of this file is used. In the second one,
+ the specified size @a bytes is used.
+
+ If the file size could not be retrieved or @a bytes is ::wxInvalidSize
+ or zero, the @c failmsg string is returned.
+
+ Otherwise the returned string is a floating-point number with @c
+ precision decimal digits followed by the abbreviation of the unit used.
+ By default the traditional, although incorrect, convention of using SI
+ units for multiples of 1024 is used, i.e. returned string will use
+ suffixes of B, KB, MB, GB, TB for bytes, kilobytes, megabytes,
+ gigabytes and terabytes respectively. With the IEC convention the names
+ of the units are changed to B, KiB, MiB, GiB and TiB for bytes,
+ kibibytes, mebibytes, gibibytes and tebibytes. Finally, with SI
+ convention the same B, KB, MB, GB and TB suffixes are used but in their
+ correct SI meaning, i.e. as multiples of 1000 and not 1024.
+
+ Support for the different size conventions is new in wxWidgets 2.9.1,
+ in previous versions only the traditional convention was implemented.
+ */
+ wxString
+ GetHumanReadableSize(const wxString& failmsg = _("Not available"),
+ int precision = 1,
+ wxSizeConvention conv = wxSIZE_CONV_TRADITIONAL) const;
+
+ static wxString
+ GetHumanReadableSize(const wxULongLong& bytes,
+ const wxString& nullsize = _("Not available"),
+ int precision = 1,
+ wxSizeConvention conv = wxSIZE_CONV_TRADITIONAL);
+ //@}
/**
Return the long form of the path (returns identity on non-Windows platforms).
Don't include the trailing separator in the returned string. This is
the default (the value of this flag is 0) and exists only for symmetry
with wxPATH_GET_SEPARATOR.
+
+ @note If the path is a toplevel one (e.g. @c "/" on Unix or @c "C:\" on
+ Windows), then the returned path will contain trailing separator
+ even with @c wxPATH_NO_SEPARATOR.
*/
wxString GetPath(int flags = wxPATH_GET_VOLUME,
wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE) const;
bool HasVolume() const;
/**
- Inserts a directory component before the zero-based position in the directory
- list. Please see AppendDir() for important notes.
+ Inserts a directory component before the zero-based position in the
+ directory list.
+
+ As with AppendDir(), @a dir must be a single directory name and the
+ function returns @false and does nothing else if it isn't.
+
+ Notice that the return value is only available in wxWidgets 2.9.5 or
+ later.
*/
- void InsertDir(size_t before, const wxString& dir);
+ bool InsertDir(size_t before, const wxString& dir);
/**
Returns @true if this filename is absolute.
static bool IsPathSeparator(wxChar ch,
wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
+ /**
+ Returns @true if the volume part of the path is a unique volume name.
+
+ This function will always return @false if the path format is not
+ wxPATH_DOS.
+
+ Unique volume names are Windows volume identifiers which remain the same
+ regardless of where the volume is actually mounted. Example of a path
+ using a volume name could be
+ @code
+ \\?\Volume{8089d7d7-d0ac-11db-9dd0-806d6172696f}\Program Files\setup.exe
+ @endcode
+
+ @since 2.9.1
+ */
+ static bool IsMSWUniqueVolumeNamePath(const wxString& path,
+ wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
+
/**
Returns @true if this filename is not absolute.
*/
/**
On Mac OS, gets the common type and creator for the given extension.
+
+ @onlyfor{wxosx}
*/
static bool MacFindDefaultTypeAndCreator(const wxString& ext,
wxUint32* type,
/**
On Mac OS, registers application defined extensions and their default type
and creator.
+
+ @onlyfor{wxosx}
*/
static void MacRegisterDefaultTypeAndCreator(const wxString& ext,
wxUint32 type,
/**
On Mac OS, looks up the appropriate type and creator from the registration
and then sets it.
+
+ @onlyfor{wxosx}
*/
bool MacSetDefaultTypeAndCreator();
@return Returns @true if the directory was successfully created, @false
otherwise.
*/
- bool Mkdir(int perm = wxS_DIR_DEFAULT, int flags = 0);
+ bool Mkdir(int perm = wxS_DIR_DEFAULT, int flags = 0) const;
/**
Creates a directory.
int flags = 0);
/**
- Normalize the path. With the default flags value, the path will be
- made absolute, without any ".." and "." and all environment
- variables will be expanded in it.
+ Normalize the path.
+
+ With the default flags value, the path will be made absolute, without
+ any ".." and "." and all environment variables will be expanded in it.
+
+ Notice that in some rare cases normalizing a valid path may result in
+ an invalid wxFileName object. E.g. normalizing "./" path using
+ wxPATH_NORM_DOTS but not wxPATH_NORM_ABSOLUTE will result in a
+ completely empty and thus invalid object. As long as there is a non
+ empty file name the result of normalization will be valid however.
@param flags
The kind of normalization to do with the file name. It can be
@return Returns @true if the directory was successfully deleted, @false
otherwise.
*/
- bool Rmdir(int flags = 0);
+ bool Rmdir(int flags = 0) const;
/**
Deletes the specified directory from the file system.
/**
Changes the current working directory.
*/
- bool SetCwd();
+ bool SetCwd() const;
/**
Changes the current working directory.
*/
void SetName(const wxString& name);
+ /**
+ Sets the path.
+
+ The @a path argument includes both the path and the volume, if
+ supported by @a format.
+
+ Calling this function doesn't affect the name and extension components,
+ to change them as well you can use Assign() or just an assignment
+ operator.
+
+ @see GetPath()
+ */
+ void SetPath(const wxString& path, wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
+
/**
Sets the file creation and last access/modification times (any of the pointers
may be @NULL).
*/
bool SetTimes(const wxDateTime* dtAccess,
const wxDateTime* dtMod,
- const wxDateTime* dtCreate);
+ const wxDateTime* dtCreate) const;
/**
Sets the volume specifier.
*/
void SetVolume(const wxString& volume);
+ /**
+ Return whether some operations will follow symlink.
+
+ By default, file operations "follow symlink", i.e. operate on its
+ target and not on the symlink itself. See DontFollowLink() for more
+ information.
+
+ @since 2.9.5
+ */
+ bool ShouldFollowLink() const;
+
//@{
/**
This function splits a full file name into components: the volume (with the
wxString* path,
wxPathFormat format = wxPATH_NATIVE);
+
+ /**
+ Strip the file extension.
+
+ This function does more than just removing everything after the last
+ period from the string, for example it will return the string ".vimrc"
+ unchanged because the part after the period is not an extension but the
+ file name in this case. You can use wxString::BeforeLast() to really
+ get just the part before the last period (but notice that that function
+ returns empty string if period is not present at all unlike this
+ function which returns the @a fullname unchanged in this case).
+
+ @param fullname
+ File path including name and, optionally, extension.
+
+ @return
+ File path without extension
+
+ @since 2.9.0
+ */
+ static wxString StripExtension(const wxString& fullname);
+
/**
Sets the access and modification times to the current moment.
*/
- bool Touch();
+ bool Touch() const;
/**
Returns @true if the filenames are different. The string @e filenames
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