TskUtilities Class Reference

Contains commonly needed utility methods. More...

#include <TskUtilities.h>

Static Public Member Functions
static void	cleanUTF8 (char *buf)
static bool	getHostIP (const std::string &host, std::string &host_ip)
	Get the IP address for the given host name. More...
static std::string	getProgDir ()
	Get the path of the directory where the currently executing program is installed. More...
static std::string	stripQuotes (const std::string &str)
	Strip matching leading and trailing double quotes from the input str. More...
static std::wstring	toUTF16 (const std::string &utf8Str)
	Convert a given UTF8 string to UTF16. More...
static std::string	toUTF8 (const std::wstring &utf16Str)
	Convert a given UTF16 string to UTF8. More...

Detailed Description

Contains commonly needed utility methods.

Refer to the poco library for other commonly needed methods.

Member Function Documentation

bool TskUtilities::getHostIP ( const std::string &  host, std::string &  host_ip  )

static

Get the IP address for the given host name.

Parameters

host	The name of the host who's IP address you want.
host_ip	This string will be filled in with the IP address.

Returns

true on success, false otherwise.

References LOGERROR.

Referenced by TskImgDBPostgreSQL::open().

std::string TskUtilities::getProgDir ( )

static

Get the path of the directory where the currently executing program is installed.

Returns

The path of the program directory.

References toUTF8().

Referenced by TskSystemProperties::get().

std::string TskUtilities::stripQuotes ( const std::string &  str)

static

Strip matching leading and trailing double quotes from the input str.

If there is no matching quotes, the input str is returned.

Returns

String without matching leading and trailing double quote.

std::wstring TskUtilities::toUTF16 ( const std::string &  utf8Str)

static

Convert a given UTF8 string to UTF16.

Parameters

utf8Str

The UTF8 encoded string.

Returns

A UTF16 encoded version of the input string.

References TSKconversionOK, and TSKstrictConversion.

Referenced by TskFileManagerImpl::copyDirectory(), TskSystemProperties::expandMacrosW(), Log::getLogPathW(), TskFileManagerImpl::getPath(), TskSystemProperties::getW(), and TskCarveExtractScalpel::processFile().

std::string TskUtilities::toUTF8 ( const std::wstring &  utf16Str)

static

Convert a given UTF16 string to UTF8.

Parameters

utf16Str

The UTF16 encoded string.

Returns

A UTF8 encoded version of the input string.

References TSKconversionOK, and TSKstrictConversion.

Referenced by TskFileManagerImpl::addFile(), TskFileManagerImpl::copyDirectory(), TskFileManagerImpl::copyFile(), TskSystemProperties::expandMacrosW(), getProgDir(), TskSystemProperties::getW(), TskSystemPropertiesImpl::initialize(), Log::log(), TskImageFileTsk::open(), Log::open(), TskFileManagerImpl::saveFile(), and TskSystemProperties::setW().

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

• framework/tsk/framework/utilities/TskUtilities.h
• framework/tsk/framework/utilities/TskUtilities.cpp