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title: "FileSystem"
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## FileSystem

Main class for a new FileSystem instance.

### Constructors

#### new FileSystem()

```ruby
def initialize(sandbox_id:, toolbox_api:, otel_state:)

```

Initializes a new FileSystem instance.

**Parameters**:

- `sandbox_id` _String_ - The Sandbox ID
- `toolbox_api` _DaytonaToolboxApiClient:FileSystemApi_ - API client for Sandbox operations
- `otel_state` _Daytona:OtelState, nil_ -

**Returns**:

- `FileSystem` - a new instance of FileSystem

### Methods

#### sandbox_id()

```ruby
def sandbox_id()

```

**Returns**:

- `String` - The Sandbox ID

#### toolbox_api()

```ruby
def toolbox_api()

```

**Returns**:

- `DaytonaToolboxApiClient:FileSystemApi` - API client for Sandbox operations

#### create_folder()

```ruby
def create_folder(path, mode)

```

Creates a new directory in the Sandbox at the specified path with the given
permissions.

**Parameters**:

- `path` _String_ - Path where the folder should be created. Relative paths are resolved based
on the sandbox working directory.
- `mode` _String_ - Folder permissions in octal format (e.g., "755" for rwxr-xr-x).

**Returns**:

- `void`

**Raises**:

- `Daytona:Sdk:Error` - If the operation fails

**Examples:**

```ruby
# Create a directory with standard permissions
sandbox.fs.create_folder("workspace/data", "755")

# Create a private directory
sandbox.fs.create_folder("workspace/secrets", "700")

```

#### delete_file()

```ruby
def delete_file(path, recursive:)

```

Deletes a file from the Sandbox.

**Parameters**:

- `path` _String_ - Path to the file to delete. Relative paths are resolved based on the sandbox working directory.
- `recursive` _Boolean_ - If the file is a directory, this must be true to delete it.

**Returns**:

- `void`

**Raises**:

- `Daytona:Sdk:Error` - If the operation fails

**Examples:**

```ruby
# Delete a file
sandbox.fs.delete_file("workspace/data/old_file.txt")

# Delete a directory recursively
sandbox.fs.delete_file("workspace/old_dir", recursive: true)

```

#### get_file_info()

```ruby
def get_file_info(path)

```

Gets detailed information about a file or directory, including its
size, permissions, and timestamps.

**Parameters**:

- `path` _String_ - Path to the file or directory. Relative paths are resolved based
on the sandbox working directory.

**Returns**:

- `DaytonaApiClient:FileInfo` - Detailed file information

**Raises**:

- `Daytona:Sdk:Error` - If the operation fails

**Examples:**

```ruby
# Get file metadata
info = sandbox.fs.get_file_info("workspace/data/file.txt")
puts "Size: #{info.size} bytes"
puts "Modified: #{info.mod_time}"
puts "Mode: #{info.mode}"

# Check if path is a directory
info = sandbox.fs.get_file_info("workspace/data")
puts "Path is a directory" if info.is_dir

```

#### list_files()

```ruby
def list_files(path)

```

Lists files and directories in a given path and returns their information, similar to the ls -l command.

**Parameters**:

- `path` _String_ - Path to the directory to list contents from. Relative paths are resolved
based on the sandbox working directory.

**Returns**:

- `Array\<DaytonaApiClient:FileInfo\>` - List of file and directory information

**Raises**:

- `Daytona:Sdk:Error` - If the operation fails

**Examples:**

```ruby
# List directory contents
files = sandbox.fs.list_files("workspace/data")

# Print files and their sizes
files.each do |file|
  puts "#{file.name}: #{file.size} bytes" unless file.is_dir
end

# List only directories
dirs = files.select(&:is_dir)
puts "Subdirectories: #{dirs.map(&:name).join(', ')}"

```

#### download_file()

```ruby
def download_file(remote_path, local_path)

```

Downloads a file from the Sandbox. Returns the file contents as a string.
This method is useful when you want to load the file into memory without saving it to disk.
It can only be used for smaller files.

**Parameters**:

- `remote_path` _String_ - Path to the file in the Sandbox. Relative paths are resolved based
on the sandbox working directory.
- `local_path` _String, nil_ - Optional path to save the file locally. If provided, the file will be saved to disk.

**Returns**:

- `File, nil` - The file if local_path is nil, otherwise nil

**Raises**:

- `Daytona:Sdk:Error` - If the operation fails

**Examples:**

```ruby
# Download and get file content
content = sandbox.fs.download_file("workspace/data/file.txt")
puts content

# Download and save a file locally
sandbox.fs.download_file("workspace/data/file.txt", "local_copy.txt")
size_mb = File.size("local_copy.txt") / 1024.0 / 1024.0
puts "Size of the downloaded file: #{size_mb} MB"

```

#### download_file_stream()

```ruby
def download_file_stream(remote_path, timeout:, on_progress:, cancel_event:)

```

Downloads a single file from the Sandbox as a stream without buffering the entire
file into memory. Yields file content in chunks to the given block, or returns an
Enumerator if no block is given.

**Parameters**:

- `remote_path` _String_ - Path to the file in the Sandbox. Relative paths are resolved
based on the sandbox working directory.
- `timeout` _Integer_ - Timeout for the download operation in seconds. 0 means no timeout.
Default is 30 minutes.
- `on_progress` _Proc, nil_ - Optional callback invoked with a Daytona::DownloadProgress
struct containing bytes_received (Integer) and total_bytes (Integer or nil).
- `cancel_event` _#set?, nil_ - Optional cancellation token (anything responding to +set?+;
the standard library's +Concurrent::Event+ or a small ad-hoc object both work). When set
during streaming, the next chunk raises Daytona::Sdk::Error and the underlying HTTP
connection is torn down.

**Returns**:

- `Enumerator, nil` - An Enumerator yielding chunks if no block given, nil otherwise

**Raises**:

- `Daytona:Sdk:Error` - If the file does not exist, the operation fails, or
+cancel_event+ is set during streaming

**Examples:**

```ruby
File.open("local_copy.bin", "wb") do |f|
  sandbox.fs.download_file_stream("workspace/large-file.bin") { |chunk| f.write(chunk) }
end

```

```ruby
content = sandbox.fs.download_file_stream("workspace/data.json").reduce(:+)
puts content

```

#### upload_file()

```ruby
def upload_file(source, remote_path)

```

Uploads a file to the specified path in the Sandbox. If a file already exists at
the destination path, it will be overwritten.

**Parameters**:

- `source` _String, IO_ - File contents as a string/bytes or a local file path or IO object.
- `remote_path` _String_ - Path to the destination file. Relative paths are resolved based on
the sandbox working directory.

**Returns**:

- `void`

**Raises**:

- `Daytona:Sdk:Error` - If the operation fails

**Examples:**

```ruby
# Upload a text file from string content
content = "Hello, World!"
sandbox.fs.upload_file(content, "tmp/hello.txt")

# Upload a local file
sandbox.fs.upload_file("local_file.txt", "tmp/file.txt")

# Upload binary data
data = { key: "value" }.to_json
sandbox.fs.upload_file(data, "tmp/config.json")

```

#### upload_file_stream()

```ruby
def upload_file_stream(source, remote_path, timeout:, on_progress:, cancel_event:)

```

Streams +source+ to the Sandbox without buffering its contents in memory, with
optional progress reporting.

**Parameters**:

- `source` _String, IO_ - A local file path or any IO-like object responding to
+read(n)+. Strings that don't reference an existing file are uploaded as their
raw bytes (still streamed, just from memory).
- `remote_path` _String_ - Destination path in the Sandbox.
- `timeout` _Integer_ - Timeout in seconds. 0 means no timeout. Default 30 minutes.
- `on_progress` _Proc, nil_ - Optional callback invoked with a
+Daytona::UploadProgress+ struct as libcurl reports bytes actually uploaded.
- `cancel_event` _#set?, nil_ - Optional cancellation token. When set while
staging a non-file source or during the libcurl upload, the operation raises
Daytona::Sdk::Error and the in-progress upload is aborted (no destination file
is left on the sandbox thanks to the daemon's atomic-rename behaviour).

**Returns**:

- `void`

**Raises**:

- `Daytona:Sdk:Error` - If the operation fails or +cancel_event+ is set.

**Examples:**

```ruby
File.open("large.bin", "rb") do |f|
  sandbox.fs.upload_file_stream(f, "tmp/large.bin",
    on_progress: ->(p) { puts "#{p.bytes_sent} bytes sent" })
end

```

#### upload_files()

```ruby
def upload_files(files)

```

Uploads multiple files to the Sandbox. If files already exist at the destination paths,
they will be overwritten.

**Parameters**:

- `files` _Array\<FileUpload\>_ - List of files to upload.

**Returns**:

- `void`

**Raises**:

- `Daytona:Sdk:Error` - If the operation fails

**Examples:**

```ruby
# Upload multiple files
files = [
  FileUpload.new("Content of file 1", "/tmp/file1.txt"),
  FileUpload.new("workspace/data/file2.txt", "/tmp/file2.txt"),
  FileUpload.new('{"key": "value"}', "/tmp/config.json")
]
sandbox.fs.upload_files(files)

```

#### find_files()

```ruby
def find_files(path, pattern)

```

Searches for files containing a pattern, similar to the grep command.

**Parameters**:

- `path` _String_ - Path to the file or directory to search. If the path is a directory,
the search will be performed recursively. Relative paths are resolved based
on the sandbox working directory.
- `pattern` _String_ - Search pattern to match against file contents.

**Returns**:

- `Array\<DaytonaApiClient:Match\>` - List of matches found in files

**Raises**:

- `Daytona:Sdk:Error` - If the operation fails

**Examples:**

```ruby
# Search for TODOs in Ruby files
matches = sandbox.fs.find_files("workspace/src", "TODO:")
matches.each do |match|
  puts "#{match.file}:#{match.line}: #{match.content.strip}"
end

```

#### search_files()

```ruby
def search_files(path, pattern)

```

Searches for files and directories whose names match the specified pattern.
The pattern can be a simple string or a glob pattern.

**Parameters**:

- `path` _String_ - Path to the root directory to start search from. Relative paths are resolved
based on the sandbox working directory.
- `pattern` _String_ - Pattern to match against file names. Supports glob
patterns (e.g., "*.rb" for Ruby files).

**Returns**:

- `DaytonaApiClient:SearchFilesResponse`

**Raises**:

- `Daytona:Sdk:Error` - If the operation fails

**Examples:**

```ruby
# Find all Ruby files
result = sandbox.fs.search_files("workspace", "*.rb")
result.files.each { |file| puts file }

# Find files with specific prefix
result = sandbox.fs.search_files("workspace/data", "test_*")
puts "Found #{result.files.length} test files"

```

#### move_files()

```ruby
def move_files(source, destination)

```

Moves or renames a file or directory. The parent directory of the destination must exist.

**Parameters**:

- `source` _String_ - Path to the source file or directory. Relative paths are resolved
based on the sandbox working directory.
- `destination` _String_ - Path to the destination. Relative paths are resolved based on
the sandbox working directory.

**Returns**:

- `void`

**Raises**:

- `Daytona:Sdk:Error` - If the operation fails

**Examples:**

```ruby
# Rename a file
sandbox.fs.move_files(
  "workspace/data/old_name.txt",
  "workspace/data/new_name.txt"
)

# Move a file to a different directory
sandbox.fs.move_files(
  "workspace/data/file.txt",
  "workspace/archive/file.txt"
)

# Move a directory
sandbox.fs.move_files(
  "workspace/old_dir",
  "workspace/new_dir"
)

```

#### replace_in_files()

```ruby
def replace_in_files(files:, pattern:, new_value:)

```

Performs search and replace operations across multiple files.

**Parameters**:

- `files` _Array\<String\>_ - List of file paths to perform replacements in. Relative paths are
resolved based on the sandbox working directory.
- `pattern` _String_ - Pattern to search for.
- `new_value` _String_ - Text to replace matches with.

**Returns**:

- `Array\<DaytonaApiClient:ReplaceResult\>` - List of results indicating replacements made in each file

**Raises**:

- `Daytona:Sdk:Error` - If the operation fails

**Examples:**

```ruby
# Replace in specific files
results = sandbox.fs.replace_in_files(
  files: ["workspace/src/file1.rb", "workspace/src/file2.rb"],
  pattern: "old_function",
  new_value: "new_function"
)

# Print results
results.each do |result|
  if result.success
    puts "#{result.file}: #{result.success}"
  else
    puts "#{result.file}: #{result.error}"
  end
end

```

#### set_file_permissions()

```ruby
def set_file_permissions(path:, mode:, owner:, group:)

```

Sets permissions and ownership for a file or directory. Any of the parameters can be nil
to leave that attribute unchanged.

**Parameters**:

- `path` _String_ - Path to the file or directory. Relative paths are resolved based on
the sandbox working directory.
- `mode` _String, nil_ - File mode/permissions in octal format (e.g., "644" for rw-r--r--).
- `owner` _String, nil_ - User owner of the file.
- `group` _String, nil_ - Group owner of the file.

**Returns**:

- `void`

**Raises**:

- `Daytona:Sdk:Error` - If the operation fails

**Examples:**

```ruby
# Make a file executable
sandbox.fs.set_file_permissions(
  path: "workspace/scripts/run.sh",
  mode: "755"  # rwxr-xr-x
)

# Change file owner
sandbox.fs.set_file_permissions(
  path: "workspace/data/file.txt",
  owner: "daytona",
  group: "daytona"
)

```
