A method and system are disclosed for platform-independent file system interaction
that can abstract the system-level idiosyncrasies associated with multi-platform,
multi-language, multi-encoding file system interactions. One embodiment of the
method of this invention can comprise instantiating a string object via a development
environment coded calling process and setting a file name and a file path, having
an easily-identifiable format, for the string object with the calling process.
The string object can determine the encoding of the file name and the file path
and the calling process can forward the string object and an associated file operation
to an operating system level file system interface handler. The operating system
level file system interface handler can call an operating system naming function
to format the string object. The string object naming function can be compiled
along with an encoding marker indicating the target operating system for the desired
file operation.
