remove the get type method because it is inconsistent

[backbone87]

links can be directories or files

[discordier]

Nope, a link never is a file nor a directory.
A link is a link.
The target it is pointing to is either file, directory or ... you guess it... even another link.

But you are right, we are in need of something like getTarget() for when it is a link to hunt the target down (and therefore allow to follow the link).

[backbone87]

There is a getLinkTarget method.

But for me a link "inherits" the behavior of its target, which is either file behavior or directory behavior. We are on a high abstraction level, so one should not need to resolve the link to its target, to find out, if one can get the contents (file behavior) or list the contained files (directory behavior)

edit: to restrain: isDirectory should return true, if the pathname denotes a directory or link resolving to a directory. same goes for isFile

[tristanlins]

I agree to both of you.
php-filesystem is a high level abstraction and links should not be a "barrier".
is_dir and is_file also return true on links that point to a directory or a file.
Maybe, there should be a better typing, like file, directory, link-file, link-directory, link and unknown.

In the local filesystem I don't see an inconsistency, because it use is_dir and is_file.
But the ftp filesystem currently not support "link target typing", see #31

Link creation is currently fully unsupported, see #32

[backbone87]

I don't see the point of having a getType method.

isLink, isFile, isDirectory are completly satisfying all use cases I can think of.

[tristanlins]

According to our phone discussion, getType should return a bitmask. see #35