libs-base/Headers/Foundation/NSPathUtilities.h
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/** Interface to file path utilities for GNUStep
Copyright (C) 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by: Andrew Kachites McCallum <mccallum@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
Created: May 1996
This file is part of the GNUstep Base Library.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This library 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
Library General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with this library; if not, write to the Free
Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
Boston, MA 02111 USA.
AutogsdocSource: NSPathUtilities.m
*/
#ifndef __NSPathUtilities_h_GNUSTEP_BASE_INCLUDE
#define __NSPathUtilities_h_GNUSTEP_BASE_INCLUDE
#import <GNUstepBase/GSVersionMacros.h>
#import <GNUstepBase/GSObjCRuntime.h>
#if defined(__cplusplus)
extern "C" {
#endif
@class NSDictionary;
@class NSMutableDictionary;
@class NSString;
#if OS_API_VERSION(GS_API_NONE, GS_API_NONE)
/**
* This extension permits a change of username from that specified in the
* LOGNAME environment variable. Using it will almost certainly cause
* trouble if the process does not posses the file access privileges of the
* new name. This is provided primarily for use by processes that run as
* system-manager and need to act as particular users. It uses the
* [NSUserDefaults +resetUserDefaults] extension to reset the defaults system
* to use the defaults belonging to the new user.
*/
GS_EXPORT void
GSSetUserName(NSString *aName);
/**
* Returns a mutable copy of the system-wide configuration used to
* determine paths to locate files etc.<br />
* If the newConfig argument is non-nil it is used to set the config
* overriding any other version. You should not change the config
* after the user defaults system has been initialised as the new
* config will not be picked up by the defaults system.<br />
* <br />
* A typical sequence of operation might be to<br />
* Call the function with a nil argument to obtain the configuration
* information currently in use (usually obtained from the main GNUstep
* configuration file).<br />
* Modify the dictionary contents.<br />
* Call the function again passing back in the modified config.<br />
* <br />
* If you call this function with a non-nil argument before the system
* configuration file has been read, you will prevent the file from
* being read. However, you must take care doing this that creation
* of the config dictionary you are going to pass in to the function
* does not have any side-effects which would cause the config file
* to be read earlier.<br />
* If you want to prevent the user specific config file from being
* read, you must set the GNUSTEP_USER_CONFIG_FILE value in the
* dictionary to be an empty string.
*/
GS_EXPORT NSMutableDictionary*
GNUstepConfig(NSDictionary *newConfig);
/**
* Returns the location of the defaults database for the specified user.
* This uses the same information you get from GNUstepConfig() and
* GNUstepUserConfig() and builds the path to the defaults database
* fromm it.
*/
GS_EXPORT NSString*
GSDefaultsRootForUser(NSString *userName);
/**
* The config dictionary passed to this function should be a
* system-wide config as provided by GNUstepConfig() ... and
* this function merges in user specific configuration file
* information if such a file exists and is owned by the user.<br />
* NB. If the GNUSTEP_USER_CONFIG_FILE value in the system-wide
* config is an empty string, no user-specifc config will be
* read.
*/
GS_EXPORT void
GNUstepUserConfig(NSMutableDictionary *config, NSString *userName);
#endif
GS_EXPORT NSString *NSUserName(void);
GS_EXPORT NSString *NSHomeDirectory(void);
GS_EXPORT NSString *NSHomeDirectoryForUser(NSString *loginName);
#if OS_API_VERSION(GS_API_MACOSX, GS_API_LATEST)
enum
{
NSApplicationDirectory = 1, /** Applications */
NSDemoApplicationDirectory, /** Demos */
NSDeveloperApplicationDirectory, /** Developer/Applications */
NSAdminApplicationDirectory, /** Administration */
NSLibraryDirectory, /** Library */
NSDeveloperDirectory, /** Developer */
NSUserDirectory, /** user home directories */
NSDocumentationDirectory, /** Documentation */
#if OS_API_VERSION(100200, GS_API_LATEST)
NSDocumentDirectory, /** Documents */
#endif
#if OS_API_VERSION(100300, GS_API_LATEST)
NSCoreServicesDirectory, /** CoreServices */
#endif
#if OS_API_VERSION(100400, GS_API_LATEST)
NSDesktopDirectory = 12, /** location of users desktop */
NSCachesDirectory = 13, /** location of users cache files */
NSApplicationSupportDirectory = 14, /** location of app support files */
#endif
#if OS_API_VERSION(100500, GS_API_LATEST)
NSDownloadsDirectory = 15, /** location of downloaded files */
#endif
NSAllApplicationsDirectory = 100, /** all app directories */
NSAllLibrariesDirectory = 101, /** all library resources */
#define GSApplicationSupportDirectory NSApplicationSupportDirectory
/* GNUstep Directory Identifiers
* Start at 1000, we hope Apple will never overlap.
*/
GSLibrariesDirectory = 1000, /** libraries (binary code) */
GSToolsDirectory, /** non-gui programs */
GSFontsDirectory, /** font storage */
GSFrameworksDirectory, /** frameworks */
GSWebApplicationsDirectory, /** web applications (GSWeb or SOPE) */
GSAdminToolsDirectory /** admin non-gui programs */
};
/**
* Enumeration of possible requested directory type specifiers for
* NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains() function. On a traditional
* GNUstep filesystem layout these correspond to the subdirectories
* that may be found in the various domains, such as "Library"
* and "Applications". In a different filesystem layout these
* directories might be located anywhere on disk.
<example>
{
NSApplicationDirectory,
NSDemoApplicationDirectory,
NSDeveloperApplicationDirectory,
NSAdminApplicationDirectory,
NSLibraryDirectory,
NSDeveloperDirectory,
NSUserDirectory,
NSDocumentationDirectory,
NSDocumentDirectory,
NSCoreServiceDirectory,
NSDesktopDirectory,
NSCachesDirectory,
NSApplicationSupportDirectory
NSAllApplicationsDirectory,
NSAllLibrariesDirectory,
GSLibrariesDirectory,
GSToolsDirectory,
GSAdminToolsDirectory,
GSFontsDirectory,
GSFrameworksDirectory,
GSWebApplicationsDirectory
}
</example>
*/
typedef NSUInteger NSSearchPathDirectory;
enum
{
NSUserDomainMask = 1, /** The user's personal items */
NSLocalDomainMask = 2, /** Local for all users on the machine */
NSNetworkDomainMask = 4, /** Public for all users on network */
NSSystemDomainMask = 8, /** Standard GNUstep items */
NSAllDomainsMask = 0x0ffff, /** all domains */
};
/**
* Mask type for NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains() function. A bitwise OR
* of one or more of <code>NSUserDomainMask, NSLocalDomainMask,
* NSNetworkDomainMask, NSSystemDomainMask, NSAllDomainsMask</code>.
*/
typedef NSUInteger NSSearchPathDomainMask;
/**
* Returns an array of search paths to look at for resources.<br/ >
* The paths are returned in domain order:
* USER, LOCAL, NETWORK then SYSTEM.<br />
* The presence of a path in this list does <em>not</em> mean that the
* path actually exists in the filesystem.<br />
* If you are wanting to locate an existing resource, you should normally
* call this function with NSAllDomainsMask, but if you wish to find the
* path in which you should create a new file, you would generally
* specify a particular domain, and then create the path in the file
* system if it does not already exist.
*/
GS_EXPORT NSArray *NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSSearchPathDirectory directoryKey, NSSearchPathDomainMask domainMask, BOOL expandTilde);
/**
* Returns the full username of the current user.
* If unable to determine this, returns the standard user name.
*/
GS_EXPORT NSString *NSFullUserName(void);
/**
* Returns the standard paths in which applications are stored and
* should be searched for. Calls NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains()<br/ >
* Refer to the GNUstep File System Hierarchy documentation for more info.
*/
GS_EXPORT NSArray *NSStandardApplicationPaths(void);
/**
* Returns the standard paths in which resources are stored and
* should be searched for. Calls NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains()<br/ >
* Refer to the GNUstep File System Hierarchy documentation for more info.
*/
GS_EXPORT NSArray *NSStandardLibraryPaths(void);
/**
* Returns the name of a directory in which temporary files can be stored.
* Under GNUstep this is a location which is not readable by other users.
* <br />
* If a suitable directory can't be found or created, this function raises an
* NSGenericException.
*/
GS_EXPORT NSString *NSTemporaryDirectory(void);
/**
* Returns the location of the <em>root</em> directory of the file
* hierarchy. This lets you build paths in a system independent manner
* (for instance the root on unix is '/' but on windows it is 'C:\')
* by appending path components to the root.<br />
* Don't assume that /System, /Network etc exist in this path (generally
* they don't)! Use other path utility functions such as
* NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains() to find standard locations
* for libraries, applications etc.<br />
* Refer to the GNUstep File System Hierarchy documentation for more info.
*/
GS_EXPORT NSString *NSOpenStepRootDirectory(void);
#endif /* GS_API_MACOSX */
#if defined(__cplusplus)
}
#endif
#endif /* __NSPathUtilities_h_GNUSTEP_BASE_INCLUDE */