Automatically create/delete directories around file creation/removal

client/asink.go

@@ -236,6 +236,13 @@ func ProcessRemoteEvent(globals AsinkGlobals, event *asink.Event) {
 			if err != nil {
 				panic(err)
 			}
+
+			//make sure containing directory exists
+			err = util.EnsureDirExists(path.Dir(absolutePath))
+			if err != nil {
+				panic(err)
+			}
+
 			err = os.Rename(tmpfilename, absolutePath)
 			if err != nil {
 				err2 := os.Remove(tmpfilename)
@@ -254,7 +261,8 @@ func ProcessRemoteEvent(globals AsinkGlobals, event *asink.Event) {
 	} else {
 		//intentionally ignore errors in case this file has been deleted out from under us
 		os.Remove(absolutePath)
-		//TODO delete file hierarchy beneath this file if its the last one in its directory?
+		//delete the directory previously containing this file if its the last file
+		util.RecursiveRemoveEmptyDirs(path.Dir(absolutePath))
 	}
 
 	//TODO make sure file being overwritten is either unchanged or already copied off and hashed

util/util.go

@@ -11,11 +11,16 @@ import (
 func EnsureDirExists(dir string) error {
 	_, err := os.Lstat(dir)
 	if err != nil {
-		fi, err := os.Lstat(path.Dir(dir))
+		var fi os.FileInfo
+		curDir := dir
+		for dir != "" && err != nil {
+			curDir = path.Dir(curDir)
+			fi, err = os.Lstat(curDir)
+		}
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
-		err = os.Mkdir(dir, fi.Mode().Perm())
+		err = os.MkdirAll(dir, fi.Mode().Perm())
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
@@ -23,6 +28,16 @@ func EnsureDirExists(dir string) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
+//TODO maybe this shouldn't fail silently?
+func RecursiveRemoveEmptyDirs(dir string) {
+	var err error = nil
+	curDir := dir
+	for err == nil {
+		err = os.Remove(curDir)
+		curDir = path.Dir(curDir)
+	}
+}
+
 func CopyToTmp(src string, tmpdir string) (string, error) {
 	infile, err := os.Open(src)
 	if err != nil {