Re: [Boost-users] [Filesystem] API enhancement request

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Filesystem] API enhancement request
From: Alan M. Carroll (amc_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-11-20 11:48:03

I would like to have an extension added to Boost.Filesystem, which I have been hand patching along the way.

For version 1.41.0, in boost/filesystem/path.hpp,  at line 274, add

    public:
        typedef boost::BOOST_FILESYSTEM_NAMESPACE::basic_path<String, Traits> path_type;

What this does is provides access to the path type for a path iterator from just the iterator. I find it very handy when writing generic path handling code. Otherwise you have to hard code for a particular type of path, or pass the type along even though the iterator depends on that type.