path.hpp

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/// \file utils/fs/path.hpp
/// Provides the utils::fs::path class.
///
/// This is a poor man's reimplementation of the path class provided by
/// Boost.Filesystem, in the sense that it tries to follow the same API but is
/// much simplified.

#if !defined(UTILS_FS_PATH_HPP)
#define UTILS_FS_PATH_HPP

#include "utils/fs/path_fwd.hpp"

#include <string>
#include <ostream>

namespace utils {
namespace fs {


/// Representation and manipulation of a file system path.
///
/// Application code should always use this class to represent a path instead of
/// std::string, because this class is more semantically representative, ensures
/// that the values are valid and provides some useful manipulation functions.
///
/// Conversions to and from strings are always explicit.
class path {
    /// Internal representation of the path.
    std::string _repr;

public:
    explicit path(const std::string&);

    const char* c_str(void) const;
    const std::string& str(void) const;

    path branch_path(void) const;
    std::string leaf_name(void) const;
    path to_absolute(void) const;

    bool is_absolute(void) const;
    bool is_parent_of(path) const;
    int ncomponents(void) const;

    bool operator<(const path&) const;
    bool operator==(const path&) const;
    bool operator!=(const path&) const;
    path operator/(const std::string&) const;
    path operator/(const path&) const;
};


std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream&, const path&);


}  // namespace fs
}  // namespace utils

#endif  // !defined(UTILS_FS_PATH_HPP)