src/Pure/General/file.ML

clarified example settings for Proof General;

(*  Title:      Pure/General/file.ML
    Author:     Markus Wenzel, TU Muenchen

File system operations.
*)

signature FILE =
sig
  val platform_path: Path.T -> string
  val shell_quote: string -> string
  val shell_path: Path.T -> string
  val cd: Path.T -> unit
  val pwd: unit -> Path.T
  val full_path: Path.T -> Path.T
  val tmp_path: Path.T -> Path.T
  val exists: Path.T -> bool
  val check: Path.T -> unit
  val rm: Path.T -> unit
  val is_dir: Path.T -> bool
  val open_input: (TextIO.instream -> 'a) -> Path.T -> 'a
  val open_output: (TextIO.outstream -> 'a) -> Path.T -> 'a
  val open_append: (TextIO.outstream -> 'a) -> Path.T -> 'a
  val fold_lines: (string -> 'a -> 'a) -> Path.T -> 'a -> 'a
  val read: Path.T -> string
  val write: Path.T -> string -> unit
  val append: Path.T -> string -> unit
  val write_list: Path.T -> string list -> unit
  val append_list: Path.T -> string list -> unit
  val write_buffer: Path.T -> Buffer.T -> unit
  val eq: Path.T * Path.T -> bool
  val copy: Path.T -> Path.T -> unit
end;

structure File: FILE =
struct

(* system path representations *)

val platform_path = Path.implode o Path.expand;

fun shell_quote s =
  if exists_string (fn c => c = "'") s then
    error ("Illegal single quote in path specification: " ^ quote s)
  else enclose "'" "'" s;

val shell_path = shell_quote o platform_path;


(* current working directory *)

val cd = cd o platform_path;
val pwd = Path.explode o pwd;

fun full_path path =
  if Path.is_absolute path then path
  else Path.append (pwd ()) path;


(* tmp_path *)

fun tmp_path path =
  Path.append (Path.variable "ISABELLE_TMP") (Path.base path);


(* directory entries *)

val exists = can OS.FileSys.modTime o platform_path;

fun check path =
  if exists path then ()
  else error ("No such file or directory: " ^ quote (Path.implode path));

val rm = OS.FileSys.remove o platform_path;

fun is_dir path =
  the_default false (try OS.FileSys.isDir (platform_path path));


(* open files *)

local

fun with_file open_file close_file f path =
  let val file = open_file path
  in Exn.release (Exn.capture f file before close_file file) end;

in

fun open_input f = with_file TextIO.openIn TextIO.closeIn f o platform_path;
fun open_output f = with_file TextIO.openOut TextIO.closeOut f o platform_path;
fun open_append f = with_file TextIO.openAppend TextIO.closeOut f o platform_path;

end;


(* input *)

(*scalable iterator -- avoid size limit of TextIO.inputAll, and overhead of many TextIO.inputLine*)
fun fold_lines f path a = open_input (fn file =>
  let
    fun read buf x =
      (case TextIO.input file of
        "" => (case Buffer.content buf of "" => x | line => f line x)
      | input =>
          (case String.fields (fn c => c = #"\n") input of
            [rest] => read (Buffer.add rest buf) x
          | line :: more => read_lines more (f (Buffer.content (Buffer.add line buf)) x)))
    and read_lines [rest] x = read (Buffer.add rest Buffer.empty) x
      | read_lines (line :: more) x = read_lines more (f line x);
  in read Buffer.empty a end) path;

val read = open_input TextIO.inputAll;


(* output *)

fun output txts file = List.app (fn txt => TextIO.output (file, txt)) txts;

fun write_list path txts = open_output (output txts) path;
fun append_list path txts = open_append (output txts) path;

fun write path txt = write_list path [txt];
fun append path txt = append_list path [txt];

fun write_buffer path buf = open_output (Buffer.output buf) path;


(* copy *)

fun eq paths =
  (case try (pairself (OS.FileSys.fileId o platform_path)) paths of
    SOME ids => is_equal (OS.FileSys.compare ids)
  | NONE => false);

fun copy src dst =
  if eq (src, dst) then ()
  else
    let val target = if is_dir dst then Path.append dst (Path.base src) else dst
    in write target (read src) end;

end;