Struct OpenOptions

pub struct OpenOptions { /* private fields */ }

Options and flags which can be used to configure how a file is opened.

This builder exposes the ability to configure how a File is opened and what operations are permitted on the open file. The File::open and File::create methods are aliases for commonly used options using this builder.

Generally speaking, when using OpenOptions, you’ll first call new, then chain calls to methods to set each option, then call open, passing the path of the file you’re trying to open. This will give you a io::Result with a File inside that you can further operate on.

Examples

Opening a file to read:

use std::fs::OpenOptions;

let file = OpenOptions::new().read(true).open("foo.txt");

Opening a file for both reading and writing, as well as creating it if it doesn’t exist:

use std::fs::OpenOptions;

let file = OpenOptions::new()
            .read(true)
            .write(true)
            .create(true)
            .open("foo.txt");

Implementations

impl OpenOptions

pub fn new() -> OpenOptions

Creates a blank new set of options ready for configuration.

All options are initially set to false.

Examples

use std::fs::OpenOptions;

let mut options = OpenOptions::new();
let file = options.read(true).open("foo.txt");

pub fn read(&mut self, read: bool) -> &mut OpenOptions

Sets the option for read access.

This option, when true, will indicate that the file should be read-able if opened.

Examples

use std::fs::OpenOptions;

let file = OpenOptions::new().read(true).open("foo.txt");

pub fn write(&mut self, write: bool) -> &mut OpenOptions

Sets the option for write access.

This option, when true, will indicate that the file should be write-able if opened.

If the file already exists, any write calls on it will overwrite its contents, without truncating it.

Examples

use std::fs::OpenOptions;

let file = OpenOptions::new().write(true).open("foo.txt");

pub fn create(&mut self, create: bool) -> &mut OpenOptions

Sets the option for creating a new file.

This option indicates whether a new file will be created if the file does not yet already exist.

In order for the file to be created, write or append access must be used.

Examples

use std::fs::OpenOptions;

let file = OpenOptions::new().write(true).create(true).open("foo.txt");

pub fn truncate(&mut self, truncate: bool) -> &mut OpenOptions

Sets the option for truncating a previous file.

If a file is successfully opened with this option set it will truncate the file to 0 length if it already exists.

The file must be opened with write access for truncate to work.

Examples

use std::fs::OpenOptions;

let file = OpenOptions::new().write(true).truncate(true).open("foo.txt");

pub fn open<P: AsRef<Path>>(&self, path: P) -> Result<File>

Opens a file at path with the options specified by self.

Errors

This function will return an error under a number of different circumstances. Some of these error conditions are listed here, together with their ErrorKind. The mapping to ErrorKinds is not part of the compatibility contract of the function, especially the Other kind might change to more specific kinds in the future.

• [NotFound]: The specified file does not exist and neither create or create_new is set.
• [NotFound]: One of the directory components of the file path does not exist.
• [PermissionDenied]: The user lacks permission to get the specified access rights for the file.
• [PermissionDenied]: The user lacks permission to open one of the directory components of the specified path.
• [AlreadyExists]: create_new was specified and the file already exists.
• [InvalidInput]: Invalid combinations of open options (truncate without write access, no access mode set, etc.).
• [Other]: One of the directory components of the specified file path was not, in fact, a directory.
• [Other]: Filesystem-level errors: full disk, write permission requested on a read-only file system, exceeded disk quota, too many open files, too long filename, too many symbolic links in the specified path (Unix-like systems only), etc.

Examples

use std::fs::OpenOptions;

let file = OpenOptions::new().open("foo.txt");

Trait Implementations

impl Clone for OpenOptions

fn clone(&self) -> OpenOptions

Returns a duplicate of the value.

fn clone_from(&mut self, source: &Self)

Performs copy-assignment from source.

impl Debug for OpenOptions

fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result

Formats the value using the given formatter.

impl Default for OpenOptions

fn default() -> Self

Returns the “default value” for a type.

impl OpenOptionsExt for OpenOptions

fn mode(&mut self, mode: u32) -> &mut OpenOptions

Sets the mode bits that a new file will be created with.

fn custom_flags(&mut self, flags: i32) -> &mut OpenOptions

Pass custom flags to the flags argument of open.