FileSystem Repository

Contains File, FileInfo, Directory, and Path classes

Quick Status

Code functions correctly

no known defects

Demonstration code

yes

Documentation

yes - needs more

Test cases

yes

Static library

no, but planned

Build requires

C++17 option, Windows

Planned design changes

Change to wrapper
around C++ filesystem

1.0 Concept

FileSystem-Windows is a library that supports managing directory contents on Windows. It provides File, FileInfo, Directory, and Path classes in the FileSystem namespace. This design is modeled after C# classes in the .Net System.IO namespace.

Many projects included in this collection of repositories use one of the DirExplorer classes (in the FileUtilities Repository) which all use FileSystem-Windows.

2.0 Build

FileSystem-Windows code was built with Visual Studio Community Edition - 2019 and tested on Windows 10.

3.0 Status

I've also developed a FileSystem for Linux, with the same classes. That may be installed after significantly more testing (see below).

As of C++17, the standard libraries contain a FileSystem library with equivalent functionality. I like the .Net System.IO class designs I used for my FileSystem, so I will probably convert these libraries to wrappers for the std::FileSystem. I won't do that until I've used the standard version for a while. I could decide that I like that interface too.

Either using the std::FileSystem as-is, or wrapping it, there will be no need for a separate Linux version, so the testing and installation of my API based design ~~may not~~ probably won't happen.

The only reason for doing so would be to illustrate designing to the Linux platform API.