• Ky-Anh Huynh (8/8) Oct 15 2017 Hello,
• evilrat (11/19) Oct 15 2017 import can do this, basically it gives you an array that you can
• Adam D. Ruppe (3/6) Oct 16 2017 Arrays yes, but not strings. So you can do `enum data =

Ky-Anh Huynh <saigon example.net> writes:

Hello,

I want to use some static contents in my program, e.g, a CSS 
file, a long listing. To help deployment process I'd like to have 
them embedded in the final binary file.

Is there any convenient way to support this? Maybe I need a 
tool/library to load file contents and generate D-code at 
run-time ?

Thanks for your reading.

evilrat <evilrat666 gmail.com> writes:

On Monday, 16 October 2017 at 05:34:13 UTC, Ky-Anh Huynh wrote:
 Hello,

 I want to use some static contents in my program, e.g, a CSS 
 file, a long listing. To help deployment process I'd like to 
 have them embedded in the final binary file.

 Is there any convenient way to support this? Maybe I need a 
 tool/library to load file contents and generate D-code at 
 run-time ?

 Thanks for your reading.


import can do this, basically it gives you an array that you can 
cast to ubyte[] for binary too, be careful with enums though, 
because enum arrays will allocate every time you access it

string data = import("strings.txt");

more
https://dlang.org/spec/expression.html#import_expressions


However for security reasons it only looks in folders which you 
pass with -J flag
or with dub using "stringImportPaths"
http://code.dlang.org/package-format?lang=json

Adam D. Ruppe <destructionator gmail.com> writes:

On Monday, 16 October 2017 at 06:03:40 UTC, evilrat wrote:
 can cast to ubyte[] for binary too, be careful with enums 
 though, because enum arrays will allocate every time you access 
 it

Arrays yes, but not strings. So you can do `enum data = 
import("strings.txt");`.