[PATCH] D51921: [VFS] vfs::directory_iterator yields path and file type instead of full Status

[Sam McCall via Phabricator via cfe-commits]

sammccall added inline comments.


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Comment at: include/clang/Basic/VirtualFileSystem.h:135
+  // For compatibility with old Status-based API. Prefer using Path directly.
+  StringRef getName() const { return Path; }
+};
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bkramer wrote:
> sammccall wrote:
> > Backwards-compatibility notes:
> > 
> >  - Almost all users of `directory_iterator` require no source changes (with this change)
> >  - Implementations of VFS require changes if they support directory iteration and do not merely wrap other VFSes. Anecdotally, most do not require changes. 
> > 
> > So this weird API seems worth having to make out-of-tree breakages less painful.
> > Happy to update the internal uses though if that seems worthwhile.
> Can we mirror llvm::sys::fs::directory_entry's interface? I want the APIs to be as close as possible. Upgrading users is not a big deal.
How much of the interface are you talking about? :-)

Making these private and calling the accessors `file()` and `type()` is easy of course, and consistency is nice.

Supporting status() with similar semantics+performance is both complicated and... not a good idea, I think. See the other patch where I added a comment like "this interface is wrong" and didn't fix it :-)

The other random functions on fs::directory_entry seem like random implementation cruft to me.


Repository:
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https://reviews.llvm.org/D51921