from 1.18 branch: Adjust things for using the new Firefox plugin: remove visible Beagle references + fix 1.18 web queue indexing bugs

src/utils/pathut.cpp

@@ -360,6 +360,26 @@ extern string path_canon(const string &is)
     return ret;
 }
 
+bool makepath(const string& ipath)
+{
+    string path = path_canon(ipath);
+    vector<string> elems;
+    stringToTokens(path, elems, "/");
+    path = "/";
+    for (vector<string>::const_iterator it = elems.begin(); 
+	 it != elems.end(); it++){
+	path += *it;
+	// Not using path_isdir() here, because this cant grok symlinks
+	// If we hit an existing file, no worry, mkdir will just fail.
+	if (access(path.c_str(), 0) != 0) {
+	    if (mkdir(path.c_str(), 0700) != 0)  {
+		return false;
+	    }
+	}
+	path += "/";
+    }
+    return true;
+}
 
 vector<string> path_dirglob(const string &dir, const string pattern)
 {
@@ -502,6 +522,10 @@ string fileurltolocalpath(string url)
     }
     return url;
 }
+bool urlisfileurl(const string& url)
+{
+    return url.find("file://") == 0;
+}
 
 // Printable url: this is used to transcode from the system charset
 // into either utf-8 if transcoding succeeds, or url-encoded

src/utils/pathut.h

@@ -55,8 +55,11 @@ extern string url_encode(const string& url,
 /// Transcode to utf-8 if possible or url encoding, for display.
 extern bool printableUrl(const string &fcharset, 
 			 const string &in, string &out);
-// Convert to file path if url is like file://
+//// Convert to file path if url is like file://. This modifies the
+//// input (and returns a copy for convenience)
 extern string fileurltolocalpath(string url);
+/// Test for file:/// url
+extern bool urlisfileurl(const string& url);
 
 /// Return the host+path part of an url. This is not a general
 /// routine, it does the right thing only in the recoll context
@@ -74,6 +77,9 @@ bool fsocc(const string &path, int *pc, // Percent occupied
 /// Create temporary directory
 extern bool maketmpdir(string& tdir, string& reason);
 
+/// mkdir -p
+extern bool makepath(const string& path);
+
 /// Temporary file class
 class TempFileInternal {
 public: