FileInfo Class Reference

Provides information about a node in the file-system.

#include <cxxtools/fileinfo.h>

List of all members.

Public Types
enum	Type {   Invalid = 0,   Directory = 1,   File = 2 }
	File-node type.
Public Member Functions
	FileInfo ()
	Default constructor.
	FileInfo (const std::string &path)
	Constructs a FileInfo object from the path path.
	FileInfo (const FileInfo &fi)
	Copy constructor.
	~FileInfo ()
	Destructor.
FileInfo &	operator= (const FileInfo &fi)
	Assignment operator.
Type	type () const
	Returns the type of the file node.
const std::string &	path () const
std::string	name () const
	Returns the full path of node in the file-system.
std::string	dirName () const
	Returns the parent directory path.
std::size_t	size () const
	Returns the size of the file in bytes.
bool	isDirectory () const
	Returns true if the node is a directory.
bool	isFile () const
	Returns true if the node is a file.
void	remove ()
	Removes the file node.
void	move (const std::string &to)
	Moves the file node to the location given by to.
Static Public Member Functions
static bool	exists (const std::string &path)
	Returns true if a file or directory exists at path.
static Type	getType (const std::string &path)
	Returns the type of file at path.

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Member Function Documentation

std::string name

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)

const

This method may return a relative path, or a fully qualified one depending on how this object was constructed.

std::string dirName

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)

const

This method might return an empty string if the node was created without a complete path. If the directory is located in the root directory of a unix file system, a slash ("/") is returned. A returned directory path always ends with a trailing path separator character. (A backslash in Windows and a slash in Unix, for example.)

void remove

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)

This object will be invalid after calling this method.

void move

(

const std::string &

to

)

The object will stay valid after this method was called and point to the moved file node.