Method and system for platform-independent file system interaction

A computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions translatable by a processor to perform:

• in an application development environment on a computer system, instantiating a magic class file string object to represent a bit string;
• determining a first encoding of a file name and file path associated with the magic class file string object, wherein the magic class file string object contains pieces of code programmed to make one or more automatic determinations at compile time, wherein the bit string represents a file specification of a file, wherein the file contains application code, and wherein the application code comprises a function call;
• automatically determining a target operating system that is being called by the function call;
• automatically transcoding the file name and file path from the first encoding into a second encoding of the target operating system;
• and
• automatically making a file system application program interface (API) call specific to the target operating system, wherein the pieces of code comprise a set of conditional logic for determining which one or more file system specific API calls are to make.

A system, comprising:

• a computer system running an application development environment and having at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium and a processor, wherein the at least one computer readable storage medium stores instructions translatable by the processor to perform:
• instantiating a magic class file string object to represent a bit string;
• determining a first encoding of a file name and file path associated with the magic class file string object, wherein the magic class file string object contains pieces of code programmed to make one or more automatic determinations at compile time, wherein the bit string represents a file specification of a file, wherein the file contains application code, and wherein the application code comprises a function call;
• automatically determining a target operating system that is being called by the function call;
• automatically transcoding the file name and file path from the first encoding into a second encoding of the target operating system;
• and
• automatically making a file system application program interface (API) call specific to the target operating system, wherein the pieces of code comprise a set of conditional logic for determining which one or more file system specific API calls are to make.