## This module implements helpers for determining special directories used by apps. ## .. importdoc:: paths.nim from std/private/osappdirs import nil import std/paths import std/envvars proc getHomeDir*(): Path {.inline, tags: [ReadEnvEffect, ReadIOEffect].} = ## Returns the home directory of the current user. ## ## This proc is wrapped by the `expandTilde proc`_ ## for the convenience of processing paths coming from user configuration files. ## ## See also: ## * `getConfigDir proc`_ ## * `getTempDir proc`_ result = Path(osappdirs.getHomeDir()) proc getConfigDir*(): Path {.inline, tags: [ReadEnvEffect, ReadIOEffect].} = ## Returns the config directory of the current user for applications. ## ## On non-Windows OSs, this proc conforms to the XDG Base Directory ## spec. Thus, this proc returns the value of the `XDG_CONFIG_HOME` environment ## variable if it is set, otherwise it returns the default configuration ## directory ("~/.config/"). ## ## An OS-dependent trailing slash is always present at the end of the ## returned string: `\\` on Windows and `/` on all other OSs. ## ## See also: ## * `getHomeDir proc`_ ## * `getTempDir proc`_ result = Path(osappdirs.getConfigDir()) proc getCacheDir*(): Path {.inline.} = ## Returns the cache directory of the current user for applications. ## ## This makes use of the following environment variables: ## ## * On Windows: `getEnv("LOCALAPPDATA")` ## ## * On macOS: `getEnv("XDG_CACHE_HOME", getEnv("HOME") / "Library/Caches")` ## ## * On other platforms: `getEnv("XDG_CACHE_HOME", getEnv("HOME") / ".cache")` ## ## **See also:** ## * `getHomeDir proc`_ ## * `getTempDir proc`_ ## * `getConfigDir proc`_ # follows https://crates.io/crates/platform-dirs result = Path(osappdirs.getCacheDir()) proc getCacheDir*(app: Path): Path {.inline.} = ## Returns the cache directory for an application `app`. ## ## * On Windows, this uses: `getCacheDir() / app / "cache"` ## * On other platforms, this uses: `getCacheDir() / app` result = Path(osappdirs.getCacheDir(app.string)) proc getTempDir*(): Path {.inline, tags: [ReadEnvEffect, ReadIOEffect].} = ## Returns the temporary directory of the current user for applications to ## save temporary files in. ## ## On Windows, it calls [GetTempPath](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/nf-fileapi-gettemppathw). ## On Posix based platforms, it will check `TMPDIR`, `TEMP`, `TMP` and `TEMPDIR` environment variables in order. ## On all platforms, `/tmp` will be returned if the procs fails. ## ## You can override this implementation ## by adding `-d:tempDir=mytempname` to your compiler invocation. ## ## .. Note:: This proc does not check whether the returned path exists. ## ## See also: ## * `getHomeDir proc`_ ## * `getConfigDir proc`_ result = Path(osappdirs.getTempDir())