fsutil

fsutil is a file system utility plugin for Pawn.

Provides a simple API for checking existence, creating, reading and removing directories and moving/copying files or directories.

Installation

Simply install to your project:

sampctl package install Southclaws/samp-fsutil

Include in your code and begin using the library:

#include <fsutil>

Usage

Exists, CreateDir, RemoveDir are self explanatory. Exists works on files and directories.

OpenDir opens a directory ready for iterating, each DirNext call will iterate through the directory, use it like while(DirNext(dir, type, entry) { ... where type and entry are pass by reference. When you're done, use CloseDir to close the directory and free memory:

new
    Directory:dir = OpenDir(testDir),
    entry[256],
    ENTRY_TYPE:type;

while(DirNext(dir, type, entry)) {
    if(type == E_REGULAR) {
        printf("File: %s", entry);
    } else if(type == E_DIRECTORY) {
        printf("Directory: %s", entry);
    } else {
        printf("Something else: %s", entry);
    }
}

new ret = CloseDir(dir); // always close an open Directory

MoveFile and CopyFile do exactly what you expect.

Path Functions

There are also a handful of helper functions for working with file paths:

• PathSep
• PathJoin
• PathBase
• PathDir
• PathExt

See the source code for documentation.

Testing

To run unit tests for Windows, first build the plugin with Visual Studio. If you use "Open CMake" mode, the .dll file will be output directly to the plugins directory of the test runtime. If you use cmake to generate a solution file, the .dll file will probably be in a directory inside plugins named Release (or Debug) so you'll have to copy that out first with cp test/plugins/Release/fsutil.dll test/plugins/fsutil.dll.

make test-windows

Linux testing can be done on Windows if you have Docker installed. The following command just runs the same as the test-windows but with --container activated to vitualise a Linux environment.

make test-linux