source: trunk/foundation/idl/nomfilepath.idl

Last change on this file was 283, checked in by cinc, 18 years ago

Fixed unitialized pointer crash. Use new IDL compiler.
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34
35#ifndef NOMPATH_IDL_INCLUDED
36#define NOMPATH_IDL_INCLUDED
37
38#include "nomstring.idl"
39#include "nomfoundation.idl"
40
41NOMCLASSNAME(NOMPath);
42
43/** \class NOMPath
44 NOMPath is a specialized string class for dealing with file or directory paths.
45 */
46interface NOMPath : NOMString
47{
48#ifdef __NOM_IDL_COMPILER__
49 filestem=nomfilepath;
50#endif
51 /**
52 The current version of this class is 1.0
53 */
54 NOMCLASSVERSION(1, 0);
55
56 /**
57 Append a path to the string. A path separator will be added to the current path
58 if necessary and the given string appended. If the given string starts with a separator
59 no additional separator will be added to the path prior to appending. If the given string
60 starts with a separator and the current path ends with a separator the ending separator
61 will be removed before appending.
62 If no input path is given only a separator is appended if necessary.
63
64 \remark
65 Note that there's no check if the input string is an absolute path. So if an absolute path
66 is given as input the resulting path may not be valid.
67
68 \return
69 The method returns the same NOMPath instance after appending.
70
71 \sa append(), appendCString()
72 */
73 PNOMPath appendPath(in PNOMPath nomPath);
74
75 /**
76 Append a separator to the path. If the path already has a separator at the end this method
77 does nothing other than returning the path object. If the given path has zero length
78 the path object only holding a separator is returned.
79
80 \remark The returned string object is not newly allocated. Be aware that the string data
81 held by the object may.
82
83 \return
84 This method returns the NOMPath. This is not a copy.
85
86 \sa append(), appendPath()
87 */
88 PNOMPath appendSeparator();
89
90 /**
91 Strips the path separator from the end of a path if there's one.
92
93 \return
94 This method returns the same instance of a NOMPath.
95
96 \sa appendSeparator()
97 */
98 PNOMPath stripSeparator();
99
100 /**
101
102 \remark This method is only implemented for OS/2.
103
104 \return
105 Returns TRUE if the given path is absolute. On OS/2 this means it starts with a letter
106 followed by a colon.
107 */
108 boolean pathIsAbsolute();
109
110 /**
111 Returns the root of the current path. On OS/2 that is a letter followed by a colon.
112
113 \remark This method is only implemented for OS/2.
114
115 \return
116 This method always returns a new instance of a NOMPath owned by the caller.
117 */
118 PNOMPath queryRoot();
119
120 /**
121 This method strips all characters from the beginning of a path till the first
122 directory separator and also this first separator. If there's no separator in
123 the path a zero length path is returned.
124
125 \return
126 This method always returns a new instance of a NOMPath owned by the caller.
127
128 \sa queryPathBegin()
129 */
130 PNOMPath erasePathBegin();
131
132 /**
133 Returns the part of the path up to the first directory separator ('\' on OS/2).
134 If there's no directory separator the whole path is returned. This method does
135 not remove the part from the given path. Use erasePathBegin() to do that.
136
137 \remark This method only works for null terminated string.
138
139 \return
140 A new NOMString object holding the first part of a path.
141
142 \sa erasePathBegin()
143 */
144 PNOMPath queryPathBegin();
145};
146
147#endif /* NOMPATH_IDL_INCLUDED */
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