Crate ebod 

Structs

FileEntry

The structure with which the metadata of the files are stored, retrieved and worked upon.

Enums

EntryType

Enum to store either the file entry is a File or a Dir (Directory).

LogType

A structure that holds the types of messages that can be displayed by the log function.

Functions

backup

Backs up data present in the src folder into the dest folder.

check_dir_existence

check_with_filename

Checks if the filename in src already exists in the dest directory

copy_file

Abstraction for the file copying mechanism

delete_copies_in_dir

The function deletes duplicates files in the directory passed as input. Useful to clean-up duplicate files after syncing two directories.

initialize_dir

A function to initalize the directory for ebod. This is the function that is called when the ebod init command is executed. It creates the ./.ebod/metadata.json file. Scans the directory for information of files and loads the metadata into metadata.json.

log

Function with which all the progress is logged in ebod. The LogType has three options: Info, Ok and Err. Info is mapped to yellow, Ok to green and Err to red for efficient and easy to read logging.

read_metadata

Abstraction for the mechanism that reads the metadata from .ebod/metadata.json and returns it

recursive_listing

A function to traverse the directories and files recursively and store their metadata.

rename_redundant_files

Renaming redundant files to prevent overwriting

sync_dirs

The function that is called when ebod sync command is invoked. It syncs the files in the source and the destination directory. It works by first backing up the src into dest. Then dest is initialized again and then this dist is backed up into the src directory. Then the copies in the src directory are cleared to avoid duplication.