fileManager module¶

class fileManager.fileManager¶

Bases: object

This is a class that manages files and also allows the downloading, seaching and deleting of files.

authDownload(URL, username, password, outName)¶

Downloads the file from a website that requires authentication, and stores the file in the USB.

Parameters

URL (string) – is the url that points to the file that is to be downladed.
username (string) – This is the username that the individual uses to login to a website
password (string) – This is the password the individual uses to login to a file.
outName (string) – This is the name of the file that the individual is downloading.

deleteFile(fName)¶

searches for the fileName and deletes it from the usb module

Parameters: fName (string) – [ The name of the file that is being searched, the name should include its file type at the end]
Returns: The name of result of deleting for the file using find command on a linux terminal, if one of the parameters given are wrong it returns an empty string
Return type: string

obtainName(nameList)¶

Obtains the name of the file from the url

Parameters: nameList (string) – The nameList argument represent the url list returned the spliturl(self,url) function
Returns: The name of file that URL in the nameList points to, if one of the parameters given are wrong it returns an empty string
Return type: string

obtainType(nameList)¶

Obtains the type of the file that the link points to

Parameters: nameList (strimg) – The nameList argument represent the url list returned the spliturl(self,url) function
Returns: The type of file that URL in the nameList points to, if one of the parameters given are wrong it returns an empty string
Return type: string

searchFile(fName)¶

searches for the fileName in the usb module.

Parameters: fName (string) – The name of the file that is being searched
Returns: The name of result of searching for the file using find command on a linux terminal, if one of the parameters given are wrong it returns an empty string
Return type: string

splitUrl(url)¶

Takes a url, splites it to and splits it to get the file type and also obtains the name of the file from the url.

Parameters: url (string) – nameList (list): Takes in a url of the document to be downloaded.
Returns: returns a list where the contents are the strings in the url that are seperated by a backslash /. or If the string has no backslash / decilimator it returns invalid URL given
Return type: list