Platform-specific methods (quoting etc.) for local paths
ForNeVeR opened this issue · 0 comments
ForNeVeR commented
First of all, there are some specific APIs for paths (say, GetCompressedFileSize
on Windows, also Unix rights and Windows ACLs) which we may seek to implement.
Second: there are several absolutely different ways to convert paths to strings. For certain Windows APIs, it's important to handle these properly (i.e. quote paths, or append a UNC prefix where appropriate, see Vacuum's AbsolutePath
as inspiration).
Obviously, not all users want the platform-specific parts of the file path API, so we may include some separate platform-specific packages for all of this.
I imagine our users calling something like
LocalPath fsp = …;
MyNativeFuncs.DoWinApiOperation(fsp.QuoteWinApi()); // QuoteWinApi is an extension
Or, say
LocalPath fsp = …;
WindowsACL acl = fsp.GetAcl(); // an extension from Win package
UnixRights rights = fsp.GetUnixPermissions(); // an extension from Unix package