system-path.h

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/*
 * Copyright (c) 2008 INRIA
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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 * published by the Free Software Foundation;
 *
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 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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 *
 * Authors: Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
 */
#ifndef SYSTEM_PATH_H
#define SYSTEM_PATH_H
 
#include <list>
#include <string>
 
/**
 * \file
 * \ingroup systempath
 * ns3::SystemPath declarations.
 */
 
namespace ns3
{
 
/**
 * \ingroup system
 * \defgroup systempath Host Filesystem
 * \brief Encapsulate OS-specific functions to manipulate file
 * and directory paths.
 *
 * The functions provided here are used mostly to implement
 * the ns-3 test framework.
 */
 
/**
 * \ingroup systempath
 * \brief Namespace for various file and directory path functions.
 */
namespace SystemPath
{
 
/**
 * \ingroup systempath
 * Get the file system path to the current executable.
 *
 * This path is only equivalent to the current working directory when
 * the executable is executed in its parent directory.
 *
 * \return The directory in which the currently-executing binary is located
 */
std::string FindSelfDirectory();
 
/**
 * \ingroup systempath
 * Join two file system path elements.
 *
 * \param [in] left A path element
 * \param [in] right A path element
 * \return A concatenation of the two input paths
 */
std::string Append(std::string left, std::string right);
 
/**
 * \ingroup systempath
 * Split a file system path into directories according to
 * the local path separator.
 *
 * This is the inverse of Join.
 *
 * \param [in] path A path
 * \return A list of path elements that can be joined together again with
 *         the Join function.
 * \sa ns3::SystemPath::Join
 */
std::list<std::string> Split(std::string path);
 
/**
 * Join a list of file system path directories into a single
 * file system path.
 *
 * This is the inverse of Split.
 *
 * \ingroup systempath
 * \param [in] begin Iterator to first element to join
 * \param [in] end Iterator to one past the last element to join
 * \return A path that is a concatenation of all the input elements.
 */
std::string Join(std::list<std::string>::const_iterator begin,
                 std::list<std::string>::const_iterator end);
 
/**
 * \ingroup systempath
 * Get the list of files located in a file system directory.
 *
 * \param [in] path A path which identifies a directory
 * \return A list of the filenames which are located in the input directory
 */
std::list<std::string> ReadFiles(std::string path);
 
/**
 * \ingroup systempath
 * Get the name of a temporary directory.
 *
 * The returned path identifies a directory which does not exist yet.
 * Call ns3::SystemPath::MakeDirectories to create it. Yes, there is a
 * well-known security race in this API but we don't care in ns-3.
 *
 * The final path to the directory is going to look something like
 *
 *     /tmp/ns3.14.30.29.32767
 *
 * The first part, "/tmp/" is the absolute path found by inspecting
 * the environment variables `TMP`and `TEMP`, in order. If neither
 * exists the hard-coded root path `/tmp/` is used.
 *
 * The directory name itself starts with the "ns3" identifier telling folks
 * who is making all of the temp directories.
 *
 * The next three numbers give the hour, minute and second, separated by
 * periods.
 *
 * The final number is randomly generated, to avoid name collisions.
 *
 * \return A path which identifies a temporary directory.
 */
std::string MakeTemporaryDirectoryName();
 
/**
 * \ingroup systempath
 * Create all the directories leading to path.
 *
 * \param [in] path A path to a directory
 */
void MakeDirectories(std::string path);
 
/**
 * \ingroup systempath
 * Check if a path exists.
 * Path can be a file or directory.
 * \param [in] path The path to check.
 * \returns \c true if the \pname{path} exists.
 */
bool Exists(const std::string path);
 
/**
 * \ingroup systempath
 * Replace incompatible characters in a path,
 * to get a path compatible with different
 * file systems.
 * \param [in] path The path to check.
 * \returns A compatible path.
 */
std::string CreateValidSystemPath(const std::string path);
 
} // namespace SystemPath
 
} // namespace ns3
 
#endif /* SYSTEM_PATH_H */