dir-ops.h

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/*

Copyright (C) 1996-2017 John W. Eaton

This file is part of Octave.

Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your
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Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

*/

#if ! defined (octave_dir_ops_h)
#define octave_dir_ops_h 1

#include "octave-config.h"

#include <string>

#include "str-vec.h"

namespace octave
{
  namespace sys
  {
    class
    OCTAVE_API
    dir_entry
    {
    public:

      dir_entry (const std::string& n = "")
        : name (n), dir (0), fail (false), errmsg ()
      {
        if (! name.empty ())
          open ();
      }

      dir_entry (const dir_entry& d)
        : name (d.name), dir (d.dir), fail (d.fail), errmsg (d.errmsg) { }

      dir_entry& operator = (const dir_entry& d)
      {
        if (this != &d)
          {
            name = d.name;
            dir = d.dir;
            fail = d.fail;
            errmsg = d.errmsg;
          }

        return *this;
      }

      ~dir_entry (void) { close (); }

      bool open (const std::string& = "");

      string_vector read (void);

      bool close (void);

      bool ok (void) const { return dir && ! fail; }

      operator bool () const { return ok (); }

      std::string error (void) const { return ok () ? "" : errmsg; }

      static unsigned int max_name_length (void);

    private:

      // Name of the directory.
      std::string name;

      // A pointer to the contents of the directory.  We use void here to
      // avoid possible conflicts with the way some systems declare the
      // type DIR.
      void *dir;

      // TRUE means the open for this directory failed.
      bool fail;

      // If a failure occurs, this contains the system error text.
      std::string errmsg;
    };
  }
}

#if defined (OCTAVE_USE_DEPRECATED_FUNCTIONS)

OCTAVE_DEPRECATED ("use 'octave::sys::dir_entry' instead")
typedef octave::sys::dir_entry dir_entry;

#endif

#endif