thepath 0.0.1

The Path

Yet another attempt to implement high-level object-oriented interface to manage path and files in D. Inspired by Python's pathlib and D port of pathlib but implementing it in different way.

NOTE: this is alpha version, and api is still subject for change

Following ideas used in this project

• Implement struct or class Path that have to represent single path to file or directory.
• Any operation on path have to create new instance of Path, thus no implicit modification of Path allowed to avoid side effects
• Simplify naming for frequent operations (introducing new type for this allows to do it without name collisions).
• Automatic tilde expansion when needed (for example before file operations), thus allowing to easily work with patth like ~/my/path without any special work needed.

Examples

import thepath;


Path app_dir = Path("~/.local/my-app");
Path catalog_dir = app_dir.join("catalog");


void init() {
    if (!app_dir.exists) {
        app_dir.mkdir(true);  // create recursive
    }
    if (!catalog_dir.exists) {
        catalog_dir.mkdir(true);
    }
}

void list_dir {
    fopeach(Path p; catalog_dir.walk(SpanModel.breadth)) {
        writeln(p.expandTilde.toAbsolute().toString());
    }
}