/*
** Apple Macintosh Developer Technical Support
**
** Routines for dealing with full pathnames... if you really must.
**
** by Jim Luther, Apple Developer Technical Support Emeritus
**
** File: FullPath.c
**
** Copyright © 1995-1999 Apple Computer, Inc.
** All rights reserved.
**
** You may incorporate this sample code into your applications without
** restriction, though the sample code has been provided "AS IS" and the
** responsibility for its operation is 100% yours. However, what you are
** not permitted to do is to redistribute the source as "DSC Sample Code"
** after having made changes. If you're going to re-distribute the source,
** we require that you make it clear in the source that the code was
** descended from Apple Sample Code, but that you've made changes.
*/
#include <Types.h>
#include <Errors.h>
#include <Memory.h>
#include <Files.h>
#include <TextUtils.h>
#include <Aliases.h>
#define __COMPILINGMOREFILES
#include "FSpCompat.h"
#include "FullPath.h"
/*
IMPORTANT NOTE:
The use of full pathnames is strongly discouraged. Full pathnames are
particularly unreliable as a means of identifying files, directories
or volumes within your application, for two primary reasons:
¥ The user can change the name of any element in the path at virtually
any time.
¥ Volume names on the Macintosh are *not* unique. Multiple
mounted volumes can have the same name. For this reason, the use of
a full pathname to identify a specific volume may not produce the
results you expect. If more than one volume has the same name and
a full pathname is used, the File Manager currently uses the first
mounted volume it finds with a matching name in the volume queue.
In general, you should use a fileÕs name, parent directory ID, and
volume reference number to identify a file you want to open, delete,
or otherwise manipulate.
If you need to remember the location of a particular file across
subsequent system boots, use the Alias Manager to create an alias record
describing the file. If the Alias Manager is not available, you can save
the fileÕs name, its parent directory ID, and the name of the volume on
which itÕs located. Although none of these methods is foolproof, they are
much more reliable than using full pathnames to identify files.
Nonetheless, it is sometimes useful to display a fileÕs full pathname to
the user. For example, a backup utility might display a list of full
pathnames of files as it copies them onto the backup medium. Or, a
utility might want to display a dialog box showing the full pathname of
a file when it needs the userÕs confirmation to delete the file. No
matter how unreliable full pathnames may be from a file-specification
viewpoint, users understand them more readily than volume reference
numbers or directory IDs. (Hint: Use the TruncString function from
TextUtils.h with truncMiddle as the truncWhere argument to shorten
full pathnames to a displayable length.)
The following technique for constructing the full pathname of a file is
intended for display purposes only. Applications that depend on any
particular structure of a full pathname are likely to fail on alternate
foreign file systems or under future system software versions.
*/
/*****************************************************************************/
pascal OSErr GetFullPath(short vRefNum,
long dirID,
ConstStr255Param name,
short *fullPathLength,
Handle *fullPath)
{
OSErr result;
FSSpec spec;
*fullPathLength = 0;
*fullPath = NULL;
result = FSMakeFSSpecCompat(vRefNum, dirID, name, &spec);
if ( (result == noErr) || (result == fnfErr) )
{
result = FSpGetFullPath(&spec, fullPathLength, fullPath);
}
return ( result );
}
/*****************************************************************************/
pascal OSErr FSpGetFullPath(const FSSpec *spec,
short *fullPathLength,
Handle *fullPath)
{
OSErr result;
OSErr realResult;
FSSpec tempSpec;
CInfoPBRec pb;
*fullPathLength = 0;
*fullPath = NULL;
/* Default to noErr */
realResult = result = noErr;
/* work around Nav Services "bug" (it returns invalid FSSpecs with empty names) */
if ( spec->name[0] == 0 )
{
result = FSMakeFSSpecCompat(spec->vRefNum, spec->parID, spec->name, &tempSpec);
}
else
{
/* Make a copy of the input FSSpec that can be modified */
BlockMoveData(spec, &tempSpec, sizeof(FSSpec));
}
if ( result == noErr )
{
if ( tempSpec.parID == fsRtParID )
{
/* The object is a volume */
/* Add a colon to make it a full pathname */
++tempSpec.name[0];
tempSpec.name[tempSpec.name[0]] = ':';
/* We're done */
result = PtrToHand(&tempSpec.name[1], fullPath, tempSpec.name[0]);
}
else
{
/* The object isn't a volume */
/* Is the object a file or a directory? */
pb.dirInfo.ioNamePtr = tempSpec.name;
pb.dirInfo.ioVRefNum = tempSpec.vRefNum;
pb.dirInfo.ioDrDirID = tempSpec.parID;
pb.dirInfo.ioFDirIndex = 0;
result = PBGetCatInfoSync(&pb);
// Allow file/directory name at end of path to not exist.
realResult = result;
if ( (result == noErr) || (result == fnfErr) )
{
/* if the object is a directory, append a colon so full pathname ends with colon */
if ( (result == noErr) && (pb.hFileInfo.ioFlAttrib & kioFlAttribDirMask) != 0 )
{
++tempSpec.name[0];
tempSpec.name[tempSpec.name[0]] = ':';
}
/* Put the object name in first */
result = PtrToHand(&tempSpec.name[1], fullPath, tempSpec.name[0]);
if ( result == noErr )
{
/* Get the ancestor directory names */
pb.dirInfo.ioNamePtr = tempSpec.name;
pb.dirInfo.ioVRefNum = tempSpec.vRefNum;
pb.dirInfo.ioDrParID = tempSpec.parID;
do /* loop until we have an error or find the root directory */
{
pb.dirInfo.ioFDirIndex = -1;
pb.dirInfo.ioDrDirID = pb.dirInfo.ioDrParID;
result = PBGetCatInfoSync(&pb);
if ( result == noErr )
{
/* Append colon to directory name */
++tempSpec.name[0];
tempSpec.name[tempSpec.name[0]] = ':';
/* Add directory name to beginning of fullPath */
(void) Munger(*fullPath, 0, NULL, 0, &tempSpec.name[1], tempSpec.name[0]);
result = MemError();
}
} while ( (result == noErr) && (pb.dirInfo.ioDrDirID != fsRtDirID) );
}
}
}
}
if ( result == noErr )
{
/* Return the length */
*fullPathLength = GetHandleSize(*fullPath);
result = realResult; // return realResult in case it was fnfErr
}
else
{
/* Dispose of the handle and return NULL and zero length */
if ( *fullPath != NULL )
{
DisposeHandle(*fullPath);
}
*fullPath = NULL;
*fullPathLength = 0;
}
return ( result );
}
/*****************************************************************************/
pascal OSErr FSpLocationFromFullPath(short fullPathLength,
const void *fullPath,
FSSpec *spec)
{
AliasHandle alias;
OSErr result;
Boolean wasChanged;
Str32 nullString;
/* Create a minimal alias from the full pathname */
nullString[0] = 0; /* null string to indicate no zone or server name */
result = NewAliasMinimalFromFullPath(fullPathLength, fullPath, nullString, nullString, &alias);
if ( result == noErr )
{
/* Let the Alias Manager resolve the alias. */
result = ResolveAlias(NULL, alias, spec, &wasChanged);
/* work around Alias Mgr sloppy volume matching bug */
if ( spec->vRefNum == 0 )
{
/* invalidate wrong FSSpec */
spec->parID = 0;
spec->name[0] = 0;
result = nsvErr;
}
DisposeHandle((Handle)alias); /* Free up memory used */
}
return ( result );
}
/*****************************************************************************/
pascal OSErr LocationFromFullPath(short fullPathLength,
const void *fullPath,
short *vRefNum,
long *parID,
Str31 name)
{
OSErr result;
FSSpec spec;
result = FSpLocationFromFullPath(fullPathLength, fullPath, &spec);
if ( result == noErr )
{
*vRefNum = spec.vRefNum;
*parID = spec.parID;
BlockMoveData(&spec.name[0], &name[0], spec.name[0] + 1);
}
return ( result );
}
/*****************************************************************************/