adrg/xdg

Provide CacheDir function

herzrasen opened this issue · 2 comments

herzrasen commented

It would be great if you could provide a function func CacheDir(appname string) (string, error) that (in contrast to CacheFile) only creates the cache dir for appname.

What do you think?

adrg commented

Hi @herzrasen. Thank you for your interest in the library.

Creating a CacheDir function would not be problem at all. However, I'm not sure it's completely necessary as creating a cache application directory is already a one-liner, by using xdg.CacheHome as a base path.

os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(xdg.CacheHome, "appDir"), os.ModeDir|0700)

EDIT: What's your use case for this? xdg.CacheFile already creates all parent directories of the specified file anyway.

herzrasen commented

I just re-thought my use case and figured that I indeed could use xdg.CacheFile. The use case I thought of was just to create an application specific cache directory on application startup and create the files I want to store directly. But it is perfectly reasonable to use xdg.CacheFile. Thanks for the hint.