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// Description: Header file to simplify use of <filesystem>
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#ifndef NEKTAR_LIBUTILITIES_FILESYSTEM_HPP
#define NEKTAR_LIBUTILITIES_FILESYSTEM_HPP
 
#ifdef NEKTAR_USE_GNU_FS_EXPERIMENTAL
#include <experimental/filesystem>
namespace fs = std::experimental::filesystem;
#else
#include <filesystem>
namespace fs = std::filesystem;
#endif
 
#include <algorithm>
#include <chrono>
#include <random>
 
namespace Nektar::LibUtilities
{
 
/**
 * \brief create portable path on different platforms for std::filesystem path.
 */
static inline std::string PortablePath(const fs::path &path)
{
    return fs::path(path).make_preferred().string();
}
 
/**
 * @brief Create a unique (random) path, based on an input stem string. The
 * returned string is a filename or directory that does not exist.
 *
 * Given @p specFileStem as a parameter, this returns a string in the form
 * `tmp_<stem>_abcdef` where the final 6 characters are random characters
 * and digits.
 */
static inline fs::path UniquePath(std::string specFileStem)
{
    std::random_device rd;
    std::mt19937 generator(rd());
    fs::path tmp;
 
    do
    {
        std::string chars = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
                            "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
 
        std::shuffle(chars.begin(), chars.end(), generator);
        tmp = fs::path("tmp_" + specFileStem + "_" + chars.substr(0, 6));
    } while (fs::exists(tmp));
 
    return tmp;
}
 
} // namespace Nektar::LibUtilities
 
#endif