This crate grants a enum with one variant for each file type.

Cross-platform and small, this crate has a single file with around 150 lines of source code. Simplest implementation, should be in std. If you want to check file types, here's a enum for you, don't rewrite it.

Enum FileType:

rust pub enum FileType { File, Directory, Symlink, BlockDevice, // unix only CharDevice, // unix only Fifo, // unix only Socket, // unix only }

Examples:

```rust use filetypeenum::FileType;

fn main() { let path = "/tmp"; let filetype = FileType::frompath(path).unwrap();

println!("There's a {} at {}!", file_type, path);
// Outputs: "There's a directory at /tmp!"

} ```

Note: FileType::from_path(path) returns a io::Error if: * Path does not exist. * The user lacks permissions to read metadata from path.

For each variant, there's a short hand .is_VARIANT():

file_type.is_file() for FileType::File, \ file_type.is_directory() for FileType::Directory, \ file_type.is_symlink() for FileType::Symlink, \ And so on...

```rust use filetypeenum::FileType;

fn main() { let path = ".git"; let filetype = FileType::frompath(path).unwrap();

if file_type.is_directory() {
    println!("We are at the root a git repository.");
}

} ```

By default, if path points to symlink FileType::from_path() considers the path at the symlink's target location (this implies that the returned file type can't be FileType::Symlink).

If you don't wanna follow symlinks, use FileType::from_symlink_path instead, this function may return Ok(FileType::Symlink).

```rust use filetypeenum::FileType;

fn main() { let path = "/dev/stdout"; let filetype = FileType::fromsymlink_path(path).unwrap();

println!("There's a {} at {}!", file_type, path);
// Outputs: "There's a symbolic link at /dev/stdout!"

} ```

FileType::from::<fs::FileType>(fs_ft) is also available.

Helping and contributing:

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TODO:

Add optional feature to transform from and into libc's mode_t