This moves the path canonicalization from the LexicalPath constructor to
canonicalized_path. This allows canonicalized path to no longer
construct a LexicalPath object and initialize all its member variables.
This replaces the current LexicalPath::append() API with a new method
that returns a new LexicalPath object and doesn't touch the this-object.
With this, LexicalPath is now immutable. It also adds a
LexicalPath::parent() method and the relevant test cases.
This changes the m_parts, m_dirname, m_basename, m_title and m_extension
member variables to StringViews onto the m_string String. It also
removes the m_is_absolute member in favour of computing if a path is
absolute in the is_absolute() getter. Due to this, the canonicalize()
method has been completely rewritten.
The parts() getter still returns a Vector<String>, although it is no
longer a const reference as m_parts is no longer a Vector<String>.
Rather, it is constructed from the StringViews in m_parts upon request.
The parts_view() getter has been added, which returns Vector<StringView>
const&. Most previous users of parts() have been changed to use
parts_view(), except where Strings are required.
Due to this change, it's is now no longer allow to create temporary
LexicalPath objects to call the dirname, basename, title, or extension
getters on them because the returned StringViews will point to possible
freed memory.
The LexicalPath instance methods dirname(), basename(), title() and
extension() will be changed to return StringView const& in a further
commit. Due to this, users creating temporary LexicalPath objects just
to call one of those getters will recieve a StringView const& pointing
to a possible freed buffer.
To avoid this, static methods for those APIs have been added, which will
return a String by value to avoid those problems. All cases where
temporary LexicalPath objects have been used as described above haven
been changed to use the static APIs.
Since this is always set to true on the non-default constructor and
subsequently never modified, it is somewhat pointless. Furthermore,
there are arguably no invalid relative paths.
This patch adds two new methods to LexicalPath. LexicalPath::append
appends a new path component to a LexicalPath, and LexicalPath::join
constructs a new LexicalPath from one or more components.
Co-authored-by: Gunnar Beutner <gunnar@beutner.name>
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This was done with the `ambr` search and replace tool.
ambr --no-parent-ignore --key-from-file --rep-from-file key.txt rep.txt *
Problem:
- Many constructors are defined as `{}` rather than using the ` =
default` compiler-provided constructor.
- Some types provide an implicit conversion operator from `nullptr_t`
instead of requiring the caller to default construct. This violates
the C++ Core Guidelines suggestion to declare single-argument
constructors explicit
(https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines#c46-by-default-declare-single-argument-constructors-explicit).
Solution:
- Change default constructors to use the compiler-provided default
constructor.
- Remove implicit conversion operators from `nullptr_t` and change
usage to enforce type consistency without conversion.
And move canonicalized_path() to a static method on LexicalPath.
This is to make it clear that FileSystemPath/canonicalized_path() only
perform *lexical* canonicalization.
