appdata.go

// Copyright (c) 2013-2014 The btcsuite developers
// Copyright (c) 2015 The Decred developers
// Use of this source code is governed by an ISC
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

package dcrutil

import (
	"os"
	"os/user"
	"path/filepath"
	"runtime"
	"strings"
	"unicode"
)

// appDataDir returns an operating system specific directory to be used for
// storing application data for an application.  See AppDataDir for more
// details.  This unexported version takes an operating system argument
// primarily to enable the testing package to properly test the function by
// forcing an operating system that is not the currently one.
func appDataDir(goos, appName string, roaming bool) string {
	if appName == "" || appName == "." {
		return "."
	}

	// The caller really shouldn't prepend the appName with a period, but
	// if they do, handle it gracefully by stripping it.
	if strings.HasPrefix(appName, ".") {
		appName = appName[1:]
	}
	appNameUpper := string(unicode.ToUpper(rune(appName[0]))) + appName[1:]
	appNameLower := string(unicode.ToLower(rune(appName[0]))) + appName[1:]

	// Get the OS specific home directory via the Go standard lib.
	var homeDir string
	usr, err := user.Current()
	if err == nil {
		homeDir = usr.HomeDir
	}

	// Fall back to standard HOME environment variable that works
	// for most POSIX OSes if the directory from the Go standard
	// lib failed.
	if err != nil || homeDir == "" {
		homeDir = os.Getenv("HOME")
	}

	switch goos {
	// Attempt to use the LOCALAPPDATA or APPDATA environment variable on
	// Windows.
	case "windows":
		// Windows XP and before didn't have a LOCALAPPDATA, so fallback
		// to regular APPDATA when LOCALAPPDATA is not set.
		appData := os.Getenv("LOCALAPPDATA")
		if roaming || appData == "" {
			appData = os.Getenv("APPDATA")
		}

		if appData != "" {
			return filepath.Join(appData, appNameUpper)
		}

	case "darwin":
		if homeDir != "" {
			return filepath.Join(homeDir, "Library",
				"Application Support", appNameUpper)
		}

	case "plan9":
		if homeDir != "" {
			return filepath.Join(homeDir, appNameLower)
		}

	default:
		if homeDir != "" {
			return filepath.Join(homeDir, "."+appNameLower)
		}
	}

	// Fall back to the current directory if all else fails.
	return "."
}

// AppDataDir returns an operating system specific directory to be used for
// storing application data for an application.
//
// The appName parameter is the name of the application the data directory is
// being requested for.  This function will prepend a period to the appName for
// POSIX style operating systems since that is standard practice.  An empty
// appName or one with a single dot is treated as requesting the current
// directory so only "." will be returned.  Further, the first character
// of appName will be made lowercase for POSIX style operating systems and
// uppercase for Mac and Windows since that is standard practice.
//
// The roaming parameter only applies to Windows where it specifies the roaming
// application data profile (%APPDATA%) should be used instead of the local one
// (%LOCALAPPDATA%) that is used by default.
//
// Example results:
//  dir := AppDataDir("myapp", false)
//   POSIX (Linux/BSD): ~/.myapp
//   Mac OS: $HOME/Library/Application Support/Myapp
//   Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Myapp
//   Plan 9: $home/myapp
func AppDataDir(appName string, roaming bool) string {
	return appDataDir(runtime.GOOS, appName, roaming)
}