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      1 // Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
      2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
      3 // found in the LICENSE file.
      4 
      5 // FilePath is a container for pathnames stored in a platform's native string
      6 // type, providing containers for manipulation in according with the
      7 // platform's conventions for pathnames.  It supports the following path
      8 // types:
      9 //
     10 //                   POSIX            Windows
     11 //                   ---------------  ----------------------------------
     12 // Fundamental type  char[]           wchar_t[]
     13 // Encoding          unspecified*     UTF-16
     14 // Separator         /                \, tolerant of /
     15 // Drive letters     no               case-insensitive A-Z followed by :
     16 // Alternate root    // (surprise!)   \\, for UNC paths
     17 //
     18 // * The encoding need not be specified on POSIX systems, although some
     19 //   POSIX-compliant systems do specify an encoding.  Mac OS X uses UTF-8.
     20 //   Chrome OS also uses UTF-8.
     21 //   Linux does not specify an encoding, but in practice, the locale's
     22 //   character set may be used.
     23 //
     24 // For more arcane bits of path trivia, see below.
     25 //
     26 // FilePath objects are intended to be used anywhere paths are.  An
     27 // application may pass FilePath objects around internally, masking the
     28 // underlying differences between systems, only differing in implementation
     29 // where interfacing directly with the system.  For example, a single
     30 // OpenFile(const FilePath &) function may be made available, allowing all
     31 // callers to operate without regard to the underlying implementation.  On
     32 // POSIX-like platforms, OpenFile might wrap fopen, and on Windows, it might
     33 // wrap _wfopen_s, perhaps both by calling file_path.value().c_str().  This
     34 // allows each platform to pass pathnames around without requiring conversions
     35 // between encodings, which has an impact on performance, but more imporantly,
     36 // has an impact on correctness on platforms that do not have well-defined
     37 // encodings for pathnames.
     38 //
     39 // Several methods are available to perform common operations on a FilePath
     40 // object, such as determining the parent directory (DirName), isolating the
     41 // final path component (BaseName), and appending a relative pathname string
     42 // to an existing FilePath object (Append).  These methods are highly
     43 // recommended over attempting to split and concatenate strings directly.
     44 // These methods are based purely on string manipulation and knowledge of
     45 // platform-specific pathname conventions, and do not consult the filesystem
     46 // at all, making them safe to use without fear of blocking on I/O operations.
     47 // These methods do not function as mutators but instead return distinct
     48 // instances of FilePath objects, and are therefore safe to use on const
     49 // objects.  The objects themselves are safe to share between threads.
     50 //
     51 // To aid in initialization of FilePath objects from string literals, a
     52 // FILE_PATH_LITERAL macro is provided, which accounts for the difference
     53 // between char[]-based pathnames on POSIX systems and wchar_t[]-based
     54 // pathnames on Windows.
     55 //
     56 // Paths can't contain NULs as a precaution agaist premature truncation.
     57 //
     58 // Because a FilePath object should not be instantiated at the global scope,
     59 // instead, use a FilePath::CharType[] and initialize it with
     60 // FILE_PATH_LITERAL.  At runtime, a FilePath object can be created from the
     61 // character array.  Example:
     62 //
     63 // | const FilePath::CharType kLogFileName[] = FILE_PATH_LITERAL("log.txt");
     64 // |
     65 // | void Function() {
     66 // |   FilePath log_file_path(kLogFileName);
     67 // |   [...]
     68 // | }
     69 //
     70 // WARNING: FilePaths should ALWAYS be displayed with LTR directionality, even
     71 // when the UI language is RTL. This means you always need to pass filepaths
     72 // through base::i18n::WrapPathWithLTRFormatting() before displaying it in the
     73 // RTL UI.
     74 //
     75 // This is a very common source of bugs, please try to keep this in mind.
     76 //
     77 // ARCANE BITS OF PATH TRIVIA
     78 //
     79 //  - A double leading slash is actually part of the POSIX standard.  Systems
     80 //    are allowed to treat // as an alternate root, as Windows does for UNC
     81 //    (network share) paths.  Most POSIX systems don't do anything special
     82 //    with two leading slashes, but FilePath handles this case properly
     83 //    in case it ever comes across such a system.  FilePath needs this support
     84 //    for Windows UNC paths, anyway.
     85 //    References:
     86 //    The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, sections 3.266 ("Pathname")
     87 //    and 4.12 ("Pathname Resolution"), available at:
     88 //    http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap03.html#tag_03_266
     89 //    http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap04.html#tag_04_12
     90 //
     91 //  - Windows treats c:\\ the same way it treats \\.  This was intended to
     92 //    allow older applications that require drive letters to support UNC paths
     93 //    like \\server\share\path, by permitting c:\\server\share\path as an
     94 //    equivalent.  Since the OS treats these paths specially, FilePath needs
     95 //    to do the same.  Since Windows can use either / or \ as the separator,
     96 //    FilePath treats c://, c:\\, //, and \\ all equivalently.
     97 //    Reference:
     98 //    The Old New Thing, "Why is a drive letter permitted in front of UNC
     99 //    paths (sometimes)?", available at:
    100 //    http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/11/22/495740.aspx
    101 
    102 #ifndef BASE_FILES_FILE_PATH_H_
    103 #define BASE_FILES_FILE_PATH_H_
    104 
    105 #include <stddef.h>
    106 #include <string>
    107 #include <vector>
    108 
    109 #include "base/base_export.h"
    110 #include "base/compiler_specific.h"
    111 #include "base/containers/hash_tables.h"
    112 #include "base/strings/string16.h"
    113 #include "base/strings/string_piece.h"  // For implicit conversions.
    114 #include "build/build_config.h"
    115 
    116 // Windows-style drive letter support and pathname separator characters can be
    117 // enabled and disabled independently, to aid testing.  These #defines are
    118 // here so that the same setting can be used in both the implementation and
    119 // in the unit test.
    120 #if defined(OS_WIN)
    121 #define FILE_PATH_USES_DRIVE_LETTERS
    122 #define FILE_PATH_USES_WIN_SEPARATORS
    123 #endif  // OS_WIN
    124 
    125 class Pickle;
    126 class PickleIterator;
    127 
    128 namespace base {
    129 
    130 // An abstraction to isolate users from the differences between native
    131 // pathnames on different platforms.
    132 class BASE_EXPORT FilePath {
    133  public:
    134 #if defined(OS_POSIX)
    135   // On most platforms, native pathnames are char arrays, and the encoding
    136   // may or may not be specified.  On Mac OS X, native pathnames are encoded
    137   // in UTF-8.
    138   typedef std::string StringType;
    139 #elif defined(OS_WIN)
    140   // On Windows, for Unicode-aware applications, native pathnames are wchar_t
    141   // arrays encoded in UTF-16.
    142   typedef std::wstring StringType;
    143 #endif  // OS_WIN
    144 
    145   typedef StringType::value_type CharType;
    146 
    147   // Null-terminated array of separators used to separate components in
    148   // hierarchical paths.  Each character in this array is a valid separator,
    149   // but kSeparators[0] is treated as the canonical separator and will be used
    150   // when composing pathnames.
    151   static const CharType kSeparators[];
    152 
    153   // arraysize(kSeparators).
    154   static const size_t kSeparatorsLength;
    155 
    156   // A special path component meaning "this directory."
    157   static const CharType kCurrentDirectory[];
    158 
    159   // A special path component meaning "the parent directory."
    160   static const CharType kParentDirectory[];
    161 
    162   // The character used to identify a file extension.
    163   static const CharType kExtensionSeparator;
    164 
    165   FilePath();
    166   FilePath(const FilePath& that);
    167   explicit FilePath(const StringType& path);
    168   ~FilePath();
    169   FilePath& operator=(const FilePath& that);
    170 
    171   bool operator==(const FilePath& that) const;
    172 
    173   bool operator!=(const FilePath& that) const;
    174 
    175   // Required for some STL containers and operations
    176   bool operator<(const FilePath& that) const {
    177     return path_ < that.path_;
    178   }
    179 
    180   const StringType& value() const { return path_; }
    181 
    182   bool empty() const { return path_.empty(); }
    183 
    184   void clear() { path_.clear(); }
    185 
    186   // Returns true if |character| is in kSeparators.
    187   static bool IsSeparator(CharType character);
    188 
    189   // Returns a vector of all of the components of the provided path. It is
    190   // equivalent to calling DirName().value() on the path's root component,
    191   // and BaseName().value() on each child component.
    192   void GetComponents(std::vector<FilePath::StringType>* components) const;
    193 
    194   // Returns true if this FilePath is a strict parent of the |child|. Absolute
    195   // and relative paths are accepted i.e. is /foo parent to /foo/bar and
    196   // is foo parent to foo/bar. Does not convert paths to absolute, follow
    197   // symlinks or directory navigation (e.g. ".."). A path is *NOT* its own
    198   // parent.
    199   bool IsParent(const FilePath& child) const;
    200 
    201   // If IsParent(child) holds, appends to path (if non-NULL) the
    202   // relative path to child and returns true.  For example, if parent
    203   // holds "/Users/johndoe/Library/Application Support", child holds
    204   // "/Users/johndoe/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default", and
    205   // *path holds "/Users/johndoe/Library/Caches", then after
    206   // parent.AppendRelativePath(child, path) is called *path will hold
    207   // "/Users/johndoe/Library/Caches/Google/Chrome/Default".  Otherwise,
    208   // returns false.
    209   bool AppendRelativePath(const FilePath& child, FilePath* path) const;
    210 
    211   // Returns a FilePath corresponding to the directory containing the path
    212   // named by this object, stripping away the file component.  If this object
    213   // only contains one component, returns a FilePath identifying
    214   // kCurrentDirectory.  If this object already refers to the root directory,
    215   // returns a FilePath identifying the root directory.
    216   FilePath DirName() const WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;
    217 
    218   // Returns a FilePath corresponding to the last path component of this
    219   // object, either a file or a directory.  If this object already refers to
    220   // the root directory, returns a FilePath identifying the root directory;
    221   // this is the only situation in which BaseName will return an absolute path.
    222   FilePath BaseName() const WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;
    223 
    224   // Returns ".jpg" for path "C:\pics\jojo.jpg", or an empty string if
    225   // the file has no extension.  If non-empty, Extension() will always start
    226   // with precisely one ".".  The following code should always work regardless
    227   // of the value of path.
    228   // new_path = path.RemoveExtension().value().append(path.Extension());
    229   // ASSERT(new_path == path.value());
    230   // NOTE: this is different from the original file_util implementation which
    231   // returned the extension without a leading "." ("jpg" instead of ".jpg")
    232   StringType Extension() const;
    233 
    234   // Returns "C:\pics\jojo" for path "C:\pics\jojo.jpg"
    235   // NOTE: this is slightly different from the similar file_util implementation
    236   // which returned simply 'jojo'.
    237   FilePath RemoveExtension() const WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;
    238 
    239   // Inserts |suffix| after the file name portion of |path| but before the
    240   // extension.  Returns "" if BaseName() == "." or "..".
    241   // Examples:
    242   // path == "C:\pics\jojo.jpg" suffix == " (1)", returns "C:\pics\jojo (1).jpg"
    243   // path == "jojo.jpg"         suffix == " (1)", returns "jojo (1).jpg"
    244   // path == "C:\pics\jojo"     suffix == " (1)", returns "C:\pics\jojo (1)"
    245   // path == "C:\pics.old\jojo" suffix == " (1)", returns "C:\pics.old\jojo (1)"
    246   FilePath InsertBeforeExtension(
    247       const StringType& suffix) const WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;
    248   FilePath InsertBeforeExtensionASCII(
    249       const base::StringPiece& suffix) const WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;
    250 
    251   // Adds |extension| to |file_name|. Returns the current FilePath if
    252   // |extension| is empty. Returns "" if BaseName() == "." or "..".
    253   FilePath AddExtension(
    254       const StringType& extension) const WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;
    255 
    256   // Replaces the extension of |file_name| with |extension|.  If |file_name|
    257   // does not have an extension, then |extension| is added.  If |extension| is
    258   // empty, then the extension is removed from |file_name|.
    259   // Returns "" if BaseName() == "." or "..".
    260   FilePath ReplaceExtension(
    261       const StringType& extension) const WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;
    262 
    263   // Returns true if the file path matches the specified extension. The test is
    264   // case insensitive. Don't forget the leading period if appropriate.
    265   bool MatchesExtension(const StringType& extension) const;
    266 
    267   // Returns a FilePath by appending a separator and the supplied path
    268   // component to this object's path.  Append takes care to avoid adding
    269   // excessive separators if this object's path already ends with a separator.
    270   // If this object's path is kCurrentDirectory, a new FilePath corresponding
    271   // only to |component| is returned.  |component| must be a relative path;
    272   // it is an error to pass an absolute path.
    273   FilePath Append(const StringType& component) const WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;
    274   FilePath Append(const FilePath& component) const WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;
    275 
    276   // Although Windows StringType is std::wstring, since the encoding it uses for
    277   // paths is well defined, it can handle ASCII path components as well.
    278   // Mac uses UTF8, and since ASCII is a subset of that, it works there as well.
    279   // On Linux, although it can use any 8-bit encoding for paths, we assume that
    280   // ASCII is a valid subset, regardless of the encoding, since many operating
    281   // system paths will always be ASCII.
    282   FilePath AppendASCII(const base::StringPiece& component)
    283       const WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;
    284 
    285   // Returns true if this FilePath contains an absolute path.  On Windows, an
    286   // absolute path begins with either a drive letter specification followed by
    287   // a separator character, or with two separator characters.  On POSIX
    288   // platforms, an absolute path begins with a separator character.
    289   bool IsAbsolute() const;
    290 
    291   // Returns true if the patch ends with a path separator character.
    292   bool EndsWithSeparator() const WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;
    293 
    294   // Returns a copy of this FilePath that ends with a trailing separator. If
    295   // the input path is empty, an empty FilePath will be returned.
    296   FilePath AsEndingWithSeparator() const WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;
    297 
    298   // Returns a copy of this FilePath that does not end with a trailing
    299   // separator.
    300   FilePath StripTrailingSeparators() const WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;
    301 
    302   // Returns true if this FilePath contains any attempt to reference a parent
    303   // directory (i.e. has a path component that is ".."
    304   bool ReferencesParent() const;
    305 
    306   // Return a Unicode human-readable version of this path.
    307   // Warning: you can *not*, in general, go from a display name back to a real
    308   // path.  Only use this when displaying paths to users, not just when you
    309   // want to stuff a string16 into some other API.
    310   string16 LossyDisplayName() const;
    311 
    312   // Return the path as ASCII, or the empty string if the path is not ASCII.
    313   // This should only be used for cases where the FilePath is representing a
    314   // known-ASCII filename.
    315   std::string MaybeAsASCII() const;
    316 
    317   // Return the path as UTF-8.
    318   //
    319   // This function is *unsafe* as there is no way to tell what encoding is
    320   // used in file names on POSIX systems other than Mac and Chrome OS,
    321   // although UTF-8 is practically used everywhere these days. To mitigate
    322   // the encoding issue, this function internally calls
    323   // SysNativeMBToWide() on POSIX systems other than Mac and Chrome OS,
    324   // per assumption that the current locale's encoding is used in file
    325   // names, but this isn't a perfect solution.
    326   //
    327   // Once it becomes safe to to stop caring about non-UTF-8 file names,
    328   // the SysNativeMBToWide() hack will be removed from the code, along
    329   // with "Unsafe" in the function name.
    330   std::string AsUTF8Unsafe() const;
    331 
    332   // Similar to AsUTF8Unsafe, but returns UTF-16 instead.
    333   string16 AsUTF16Unsafe() const;
    334 
    335   // Older Chromium code assumes that paths are always wstrings.
    336   // This function converts wstrings to FilePaths, and is
    337   // useful to smooth porting that old code to the FilePath API.
    338   // It has "Hack" its name so people feel bad about using it.
    339   // http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=24672
    340   //
    341   // If you are trying to be a good citizen and remove these, ask yourself:
    342   // - Am I interacting with other Chrome code that deals with files?  Then
    343   //   try to convert the API into using FilePath.
    344   // - Am I interacting with OS-native calls?  Then use value() to get at an
    345   //   OS-native string format.
    346   // - Am I using well-known file names, like "config.ini"?  Then use the
    347   //   ASCII functions (we require paths to always be supersets of ASCII).
    348   // - Am I displaying a string to the user in some UI?  Then use the
    349   //   LossyDisplayName() function, but keep in mind that you can't
    350   //   ever use the result of that again as a path.
    351   static FilePath FromWStringHack(const std::wstring& wstring);
    352 
    353   // Returns a FilePath object from a path name in UTF-8. This function
    354   // should only be used for cases where you are sure that the input
    355   // string is UTF-8.
    356   //
    357   // Like AsUTF8Unsafe(), this function is unsafe. This function
    358   // internally calls SysWideToNativeMB() on POSIX systems other than Mac
    359   // and Chrome OS, to mitigate the encoding issue. See the comment at
    360   // AsUTF8Unsafe() for details.
    361   static FilePath FromUTF8Unsafe(const std::string& utf8);
    362 
    363   // Similar to FromUTF8Unsafe, but accepts UTF-16 instead.
    364   static FilePath FromUTF16Unsafe(const string16& utf16);
    365 
    366   void WriteToPickle(Pickle* pickle) const;
    367   bool ReadFromPickle(PickleIterator* iter);
    368 
    369   // Normalize all path separators to backslash on Windows
    370   // (if FILE_PATH_USES_WIN_SEPARATORS is true), or do nothing on POSIX systems.
    371   FilePath NormalizePathSeparators() const;
    372 
    373   // Compare two strings in the same way the file system does.
    374   // Note that these always ignore case, even on file systems that are case-
    375   // sensitive. If case-sensitive comparison is ever needed, add corresponding
    376   // methods here.
    377   // The methods are written as a static method so that they can also be used
    378   // on parts of a file path, e.g., just the extension.
    379   // CompareIgnoreCase() returns -1, 0 or 1 for less-than, equal-to and
    380   // greater-than respectively.
    381   static int CompareIgnoreCase(const StringType& string1,
    382                                const StringType& string2);
    383   static bool CompareEqualIgnoreCase(const StringType& string1,
    384                                      const StringType& string2) {
    385     return CompareIgnoreCase(string1, string2) == 0;
    386   }
    387   static bool CompareLessIgnoreCase(const StringType& string1,
    388                                     const StringType& string2) {
    389     return CompareIgnoreCase(string1, string2) < 0;
    390   }
    391 
    392 #if defined(OS_MACOSX)
    393   // Returns the string in the special canonical decomposed form as defined for
    394   // HFS, which is close to, but not quite, decomposition form D. See
    395   // http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn/tn1150.html#UnicodeSubtleties
    396   // for further comments.
    397   // Returns the epmty string if the conversion failed.
    398   static StringType GetHFSDecomposedForm(const FilePath::StringType& string);
    399 
    400   // Special UTF-8 version of FastUnicodeCompare. Cf:
    401   // http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn/tn1150.html#StringComparisonAlgorithm
    402   // IMPORTANT: The input strings must be in the special HFS decomposed form!
    403   // (cf. above GetHFSDecomposedForm method)
    404   static int HFSFastUnicodeCompare(const StringType& string1,
    405                                    const StringType& string2);
    406 #endif
    407 
    408  private:
    409   // Remove trailing separators from this object.  If the path is absolute, it
    410   // will never be stripped any more than to refer to the absolute root
    411   // directory, so "////" will become "/", not "".  A leading pair of
    412   // separators is never stripped, to support alternate roots.  This is used to
    413   // support UNC paths on Windows.
    414   void StripTrailingSeparatorsInternal();
    415 
    416   StringType path_;
    417 };
    418 
    419 }  // namespace base
    420 
    421 // This is required by googletest to print a readable output on test failures.
    422 BASE_EXPORT extern void PrintTo(const base::FilePath& path, std::ostream* out);
    423 
    424 // Macros for string literal initialization of FilePath::CharType[], and for
    425 // using a FilePath::CharType[] in a printf-style format string.
    426 #if defined(OS_POSIX)
    427 #define FILE_PATH_LITERAL(x) x
    428 #define PRFilePath "s"
    429 #define PRFilePathLiteral "%s"
    430 #elif defined(OS_WIN)
    431 #define FILE_PATH_LITERAL(x) L ## x
    432 #define PRFilePath "ls"
    433 #define PRFilePathLiteral L"%ls"
    434 #endif  // OS_WIN
    435 
    436 // Provide a hash function so that hash_sets and maps can contain FilePath
    437 // objects.
    438 namespace BASE_HASH_NAMESPACE {
    439 #if defined(COMPILER_GCC)
    440 
    441 template<>
    442 struct hash<base::FilePath> {
    443   size_t operator()(const base::FilePath& f) const {
    444     return hash<base::FilePath::StringType>()(f.value());
    445   }
    446 };
    447 
    448 #elif defined(COMPILER_MSVC)
    449 
    450 inline size_t hash_value(const base::FilePath& f) {
    451   return hash_value(f.value());
    452 }
    453 
    454 #endif  // COMPILER
    455 
    456 }  // namespace BASE_HASH_NAMESPACE
    457 
    458 #endif  // BASE_FILES_FILE_PATH_H_
    459