mini-fs

mini-fs is an extensible virtual filesystem for the application layer.

Supports reading from both the native filesystem, as well as Tar & Zip archives.

[dependencies]
mini-fs = "0.2"

An example showcasing the API:

use mini_fs::prelude::*;
use mini_fs::{LocalFs, TarFs, MiniFs};

// Declare some file systems.
let local = LocalFs::pwd()?;
let tar = TarFs::open("archive.tar.gz")?;

// Mount them.
let mut fs = MiniFs::new()
    .mount("/data", local)
    .mount("/archived", tar);

// To open (read) files:
let file = fs.open("/data/example.gif")?;

Overlay filesystem

You can merge multiple file systems so they share the same mount point using a tuple. This allows you to override files between locations.

Example use cases:

• Config files with default fallbacks.
• Replacing the assets from a game (modding).

let a = LocalFs::new("data/");
// |- example.txt

let b = TarFs::open("archive.tar.gz")?;
// |- example.txt
// |- hello.txt

let files = MiniFs::new().mount("/files", (a, b));

assert!(files.open("/files/example.txt").is_ok()); // this "example.txt" is from "a"
assert!(files.open("/files/hello.txt").is_ok());

Note that if you tried to first mount a, followed by b under the same mount point, the first one would be shadowed by b.

Extensible

It is possible to define a new file store so you can read files from an archive format that is not directly supported by this crate.

You'll need to:

1. Define two types: the store itselt, and the type of file that it returns.
2. Implement the Store trait on the first type, and UserFile on the second.

For example, say you want to implement a file store (MyZip) based on a Zip archive (this crate already has an implementation, but let's say you want to improve it).

First, define types for both the Storage and the File that it will return.

use std::io;
use mini_fs::{Store, UserFile};

// This is the filesystem that will be mounted.
struct MyZip { /*...*/ }

// This example MyZip implementatin will return a slice of bytes for each
// entry in the archive. It is wrapped in a Cursor to enable IO later.
struct MyZipEntry(io::Cursor<Box<[u8]>>);

impl UserFile for MyZipEntry {}

Implement IO on MyZipEntry.

impl io::Read for MyZipEntry {
    fn read(&mut self, buf: &mut [u8]) -> io::Result<usize> {
        self.0.read(buf)
    }
}

impl io::Seek for MyZipEntry { /* skipped */ }

And Finally, implement the Store trait on MyZip

impl Store for MyZip {
    type File = MyZipEntry;
    
    fn open_path(&self, path: &Path) -> io::Result<MyZipEntry> {
        // Fetch file
        // ...
    }
}

And that is all. Now you can mount MyZip and/or use it as part of a tuple.

License

MIT License

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