Begin the first small step towards using FilePath everywhere:

- Add some transition APIs.
- Start migrating some code to transition APIs.

Review URL: http://codereview.chromium.org/8825


git-svn-id: svn://svn.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/src@4254 0039d316-1c4b-4281-b951-d872f2087c98

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/base/file_path.h b/base/file_path.h
index cb46f36..7dd2a71 100644
--- a/base/file_path.h
+++ b/base/file_path.h
@@ -145,6 +145,20 @@ class FilePath {
   // platforms, an absolute path begins with a separator character.
   bool IsAbsolute() const;
 
+  // Older Chromium code assumes that paths are always wstrings.
+  // This function converts a wstring to a FilePath, and is useful to smooth
+  // porting that old code to the FilePath API.
+  // It has "Hack" in its name so people feel bad about using it.
+  // TODO(port): remove these functions.
+  static FilePath FromWStringHack(const std::wstring& wstring);
+
+  // Older Chromium code assumes that paths are always wstrings.
+  // This function produces a wstring from a FilePath, and is useful to smooth
+  // porting that old code to the FilePath API.
+  // It has "Hack" in its name so people feel bad about using it.
+  // TODO(port): remove these functions.
+  std::wstring ToWStringHack() const;
+
  private:
   // If this FilePath contains a drive letter specification, returns the
   // position of the last character of the drive letter specification,