FileName

A file's name every common file system takes: no / or \, none of Windows' reserved characters or device names, at most 255 bytes: report.pdf.

Software; not ordered; since Jadpo 0.1.0.

Make one

Build one from its text, FileName("report.pdf"), which checks it: text that isn't one breaks format.

text.parse(raw, as: FileName) reads one from its text; text that isn't one at all fails malformed, such as notes/today.txt, notes\today.txt or "a\u0000b".

Text, JSON and storage

text.from writes its canonical text, the one form text.parse reads back. JSON sends its canonical text as a string.

It is stored in one column named for the field, of type text. .gitignore is stored as '.gitignore'.

Shown to people

text.format(value, locale:) shows it to people in their locale.

With locale: Locale.en_gb:

Operations

It has the contract's own operations: text.parse, text.from, text.format, json.read, json.write and ==. It isn't ordered, so < and sorting don't take it. Every standard type meets one contract says how they work.