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// Copyright (c) 2008 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.

// FilePath is a container for pathnames stored in a platform's native string
// type, providing containers for manipulation in according with the
// platform's conventions for pathnames.  It supports the following path
// types:
//
//                   POSIX            Windows
//                   ---------------  ----------------------------------
// Fundamental type  char[]           wchar_t[]
// Encoding          unspecified*     UTF-16
// Separator         /                \, tolerant of /
// Drive letters     no               case-insensitive A-Z followed by :
// Alternate root    // (surprise!)   \\, for UNC paths
//
// * The encoding need not be specified on POSIX systems, although some
//   POSIX-compliant systems do specify an encoding.  Mac OS X uses UTF-8.
//   Linux does not specify an encoding, but in practice, the locale's
//   character set may be used.
//
// FilePath objects are intended to be used anywhere paths are.  An
// application may pass FilePath objects around internally, masking the
// underlying differences between systems, only differing in implementation
// where interfacing directly with the system.  For example, a single
// OpenFile(const FilePath &) function may be made available, allowing all
// callers to operate without regard to the underlying implementation.  On
// POSIX-like platforms, OpenFile might wrap fopen, and on Windows, it might
// wrap _wfopen_s, perhaps both by calling file_path.value().c_str().  This
// allows each platform to pass pathnames around without requiring conversions
// between encodings, which has an impact on performance, but more imporantly,
// has an impact on correctness on platforms that do not have well-defined
// encodings for pathnames.
//
// Several methods are available to perform common operations on a FilePath
// object, such as determining the parent directory (DirName), isolating the
// final path component (BaseName), and appending a relative pathname string
// to an existing FilePath object (Append).  These methods are highly
// recommended over attempting to split and concatenate strings directly.
// These methods are based purely on string manipulation and knowledge of
// platform-specific pathname conventions, and do not consult the filesystem
// at all, making them safe to use without fear of blocking on I/O operations.
// These methods do not function as mutators but instead return distinct
// instances of FilePath objects, and are therefore safe to use on const
// objects.  The objects themselves are safe to share between threads.
//
// To aid in initialization of FilePath objects from string literals, a
// FILE_PATH_LITERAL macro is provided, which accounts for the difference
// between char[]-based pathnames on POSIX systems and wchar_t[]-based
// pathnames on Windows.
//
// Because a FilePath object should not be instantiated at the global scope,
// instead, use a FilePath::CharType[] and initialize it with
// FILE_PATH_LITERAL.  At runtime, a FilePath object can be created from the
// character array.  Example:
//
// | const FilePath::CharType kLogFileName[] = FILE_PATH_LITERAL("log.txt");
// |
// | void Function() {
// |   FilePath log_file_path(kLogFileName);
// |   [...]
// | }

#ifndef BASE_FILE_PATH_H_
#define BASE_FILE_PATH_H_

#include <string>

#include "base/compiler_specific.h"
#include "base/basictypes.h"

// Windows-style drive letter support and pathname separator characters can be
// enabled and disabled independently, to aid testing.  These #defines are
// here so that the same setting can be used in both the implementation and
// in the unit test.
#if defined(OS_WIN)
#define FILE_PATH_USES_DRIVE_LETTERS
#define FILE_PATH_USES_WIN_SEPARATORS
#endif  // OS_WIN

// An abstraction to isolate users from the differences between native
// pathnames on different platforms.
class FilePath {
 public:
#if defined(OS_POSIX)
  // On most platforms, native pathnames are char arrays, and the encoding
  // may or may not be specified.  On Mac OS X, native pathnames are encoded
  // in UTF-8.
  typedef std::string StringType;
#elif defined(OS_WIN)
  // On Windows, for Unicode-aware applications, native pathnames are wchar_t
  // arrays encoded in UTF-16.
  typedef std::wstring StringType;
#endif  // OS_WIN

  typedef StringType::value_type CharType;

  // Null-terminated array of separators used to separate components in
  // hierarchical paths.  Each character in this array is a valid separator,
  // but kSeparators[0] is treated as the canonical separator and will be used
  // when composing pathnames.
  static const CharType kSeparators[];

  // A special path component meaning "this directory."
  static const CharType kCurrentDirectory[];

  // A special path component meaning "the parent directory."
  static const CharType kParentDirectory[];

  FilePath() {}
  FilePath(const FilePath& that) : path_(that.path_) {}
  explicit FilePath(const StringType& path) : path_(path) {}

  FilePath& operator=(const FilePath& that) {
    path_ = that.path_;
    return *this;
  }

  bool operator==(const FilePath& that) const {
    return path_ == that.path_;
  }

  const StringType& value() const { return path_; }

  // Returns a FilePath corresponding to the directory containing the path
  // named by this object, stripping away the file component.  If this object
  // only contains one component, returns a FilePath identifying
  // kCurrentDirectory.  If this object already refers to the root directory,
  // returns a FilePath identifying the root directory.
  FilePath DirName() const;

  // Returns a FilePath corresponding to the last path component of this
  // object, either a file or a directory.  If this object already refers to
  // the root directory, returns a FilePath identifying the root directory;
  // this is the only situation in which BaseName will return an absolute path.
  FilePath BaseName() const;

  // Returns a FilePath by appending a separator and the supplied path
  // component to this object's path.  Append takes care to avoid adding
  // excessive separators if this object's path already ends with a separator.
  // If this object's path is kCurrentDirectory, a new FilePath corresponding
  // only to |component| is returned.  |component| must be a relative path;
  // it is an error to pass an absolute path.
  FilePath Append(const StringType& component) const WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;

  // Returns true if this FilePath contains an absolute path.  On Windows, an
  // absolute path begins with either a drive letter specification followed by
  // a separator character, or with two separator characters.  On POSIX
  // 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,
  // otherwise returns npos.  This can only be true on Windows, when a pathname
  // begins with a letter followed by a colon.  On other platforms, this always
  // returns npos.
  StringType::size_type FindDriveLetter() const;

  // Remove trailing separators from this object.  If the path is absolute, it
  // will never be stripped any more than to refer to the absolute root
  // directory, so "////" will become "/", not "".  A leading pair of
  // separators is never stripped, to support alternate roots.  This is used to
  // support UNC paths on Windows.
  void StripTrailingSeparators();

  StringType path_;
};

// Macros for string literal initialization of FilePath::CharType[].
#if defined(OS_POSIX)
#define FILE_PATH_LITERAL(x) x
#elif defined(OS_WIN)
#define FILE_PATH_LITERAL(x) L ## x
#endif  // OS_WIN

#endif  // BASE_FILE_PATH_H_