rofinn / FilePaths.jl

A type based approach to working with filesystem paths in julia

FilePaths.jl

FilePathsBase.jl provides a type based API for working with filesystem paths. Please review the FilePathsBase docs for more info on working with the base filepath types. FilePaths.jl extends FilePathsBase to provide easier interoperability with the rest of the Julia ecosystem.

Intallation:

FilePaths.jl is registered, so you can to use Pkg.add to install it.

julia> Pkg.add("FilePaths")

Usage:

julia> using FilePaths; using FilePathsBase: /

Globbing files:

julia> using Glob

julia> glob("*test*.jl", p"test")
2-element Array{PosixPath,1}:
 p"test/runtests.jl"
 p"test/test_uri.jl"

URIParsing:

julia> using URIs

julia> URI(cwd() / p"test/runtests.jl")
URI("file:///Users/rory/repos/FilePaths.jl/test/runtests.jl")

Writing String and AbstractPath compatible code:

julia> FilePaths.@compat function myrelative(x::AbstractPath, y::AbstractPath)
           return relative(x, y)
       end
myrelative (generic function with 2 methods)

julia> FilePaths.@compat function myjoin(x::P, y::String)::P where P <: AbstractPath
           return x / y
       end
myjoin (generic function with 2 methods)

julia> myrelative(cwd(), home())
p"repos/FilePaths.jl"

julia> myrelative(pwd(), homedir())
p"repos/FilePaths.jl"

julia> myjoin(parent(cwd()), "FilePaths.jl")
p"/Users/rory/repos/FilePaths.jl"

julia> myjoin("/Users/rory/repos", "FilePaths.jl")
"/Users/rory/repos/FilePaths.jl"