Thunder.Files 1.3.0

Thunder.Files

Offers a basic interface to work with files and directories

How to Use

This library provides a basic wrapper around DirectoryInfo and FileInfo that conforms to the provided IDirectory and IFile interfaces. These interfaces also have some additional helpers.

To get the an IFile, you can do any of these:

    IFile file1 = new FileInfoWrapper("/path/to/file.txt");
    
    IFile file2 = "/path/to/file.txt".AsFile();
    
    IFile file3 = new FileInfo("/path/to/file.txt").Wrap();
    
    IFile file4 = new FileInfoWrapper(new FileInfo("/path/to/file.txt"));

With an IFile, you can use the interface to:

• Copy to another file
• Create the file
• Delete the file
• Find, get, or create siblings
• Rename the file
• Move the file
• Open the file stream
• Write or read file contents

Why?

This exists mainly to help mock file systems when possible when working with files in testing.

Roadmap

• A potential path is to allow/permit semi-automatic file reading/writing based on various rules or configurations. For example, assuming a rule that a *.json file can always be read/written via a JsonReaderWriter, then we could simplify reading/writing to:

    var file = "my-file.json".AsFile();
    //from needing to specify type of reader or writer:
    var readerWriter = new JsonReaderWriter();
    var results = file.ReadContents<TestObject>(readerWriter);
    
    //to system automatically finding reader/writer based on "json" extension:
    var results = file.ReadContents<TestObject>();