Pathing

A binding of the rust Path for lulu.

Methods

• pathing.new(string): Creates a new Path.
  • Path:join(string): Returns a new Path with the joined result.
  • Path:append(string): Returns the self Path but appends the provided string.
  • Path:to_string(): Returns the path as string.
  • Path:exists(): Checks if the path exists.
  • Path:is_file(): Checks if the path is a file.
  • Path:is_dir(): Checks if the path is a dir.
  • Path:filename(): Gets the filename.
  • Path:extension(): Gets the file extension.
  • Path:stem(): Gets the file stem.
  • Path:parent(): Gets the file parent dir.
  • Path:components(): Gets the components of the path.
  • Path:list(): Gets all files in the path.
  • Path:ensure_dir(): Creates the folder if does not exist.
  • Path:ensure_file(string): Creates the file with provided content if does not exist.
  • Path:ensure(string?): If provided a string then it will create a file in the specified path if that path does not exist, otherwise will create a folder.
• pathing.root(): Returns Path of the root of the system.
• pathing.appdata(): Returns Path of the appdata of the system.
• pathing.cache(): Returns Path of the cache path of the system.
• pathing.program_files(): Returns Path of the program files folder of the system.
• pathing.temp(): Returns Path of the temp folder of the system.

Usage

using {
  lulib.pathing
}

local path = pathing.appdata()
  :join("my-app")
  :ensure()

print(path)