Re: [Pharo-users] How do I ask the FileSystem to resolve a relative path?

On 11 Mar 2018, at 09:42, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello

This is a follow up question to 'How do I make sure a directory exists?'

The answer to that question was

dir := FileSystem workingDirectory / '..' / 'public'. dir ensureCreateDirectory.

Now I want to create a writeStream.

dir writeStream

gives 'Unable to open file'

You want to write to a directory ? You probably mean dir := FileSystem workingDirectory / '..' / 'public'. dir ensureCreateDirectory. (dir / 'foo.txt') writeStreamDo: [ :out | out << 'bar' ]. You are probably also looking for dir canonicalize. (dir / 'foo.txt') canonicalize.

It seems that I need to ask to resolve the relative path first. How does the proper code idiom look like?

Regards

Hannes