filetypeenum

A enum with one variant for each file type.

Cross-platform, this crate is made of a single small lib.rs with a very simple enum implementation so that you don't have to rewrite your own.

Enum [FileType]:

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

Examples:

```rust use filetypeenum::FileType;

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

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

Errors:

• If path does not exist, or
• Current user don't have permissions to read fs::Metadata from path.

For each variant, there is also a short hand method:

rust ignore let ft = FileType::from(path); if ft.is_regular() { ... } if ft.is_directory() { ... } if ft.is_symlink() { ... } if ft.is_block_device() { ... } if ft.is_char_device() { ... } if ft.is_fifo() { ... } if ft.is_socket() { ... } rust

```rust use filetypeenum::FileType;

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

if filetype.isdirectory() { println!("We are at the root a git repository."); } ```

If path points to a symlink, from_path(path) follows it, so the returned type can never be a symlink.

To avoid this, use FileType::from_symlink_path, this don't follow, and can return a symlink.

```rust use filetypeenum::FileType;

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!" ```

Conversions

• From std::fs::FileType.
• From and into libc::mode_t (enable mode-t-conversion optional feature).

Future versions note:

Changes might occur on std API for Windows (related to symlinks), I personally don't consider this part very stable.

Helping and contributing:

It's easy to contribute to this crate, here are some options: - Share it to a friend. - Help improve this README.md, even with little details. - Open an issue or PR in the repository. - Leave a star on GitHub. - Use it!!!

TODO:

Add example on how to add the crate with the feature to the Cargo.toml.