Open Yannic opened 4 years ago
I requested this in #10695. Given that using the wrong kind of file in the wrong place causes an error, I figured there should be a mechanism for code to distinguish between them.
That said, the use is hypothetical, and I think it's fine to not prioritize unless/until real use cases pop up.
Documentation for the field should be clear that it only refers to whether the File
was declared as a symlink, e.g. by using ctx.actions.declare_symlink()
. In particular, even when is_symlink
is false, the physical file path can still be a symlink that points to another File
.
This is a feature request to expose
Artifact#isSymlink()
to Starlark so users can check whether a file is a symlink. Note that this only makes sense for unresolved symlinks, which are still experimental (--experimental_allow_unresolved_symlinks
).//cc @brandjon