Box of Files

Features

Currently, only the indexing (initialisation & update) is supported. When indexing, the last_modified property of files is trusted to not rehash files indexed after this date.

Architecture

The executable is just an interface to the bof_data library (in the data directory). It is separated in 4 classes:

• InstantiationKey which abstract the path
• Instantiation which represent an instantiation object (path and SHA)
• File which represent a file object (content metadata only)
• Database which hold the database.

The idea behind indexing process (Database::update) is vaguely describe in the archi file. All the remote notion is not implemented.

Build

Note for nix users : there is no package file, but the shell.nix setup every dependencies.

Dependencies

The build chain uses CMake (tested minimum 3.23) with Makefiles output and pkgconfig for dependencie imports. Any C++ compiler supporting C++23 and detected by CMake should be good (tested with g++ 14.3.0).

There are 3 code dependencies :

• jsoncons (header only, not checked by CMake)
• file (and more specically libmagic)
• openssl

Build

Just executing make should do the trick (including CMake configuration). The makefile has 3 targets : build, test (running unittests via CTest) and clean.