Rust API

[lgarron]

There are some situations where other tools may want to call folderify:

• Alfred Folderify Workflow  #67
• Feature Request: GUI #92
• MCP Server for folderify #96

They can do so on the commandline, but using a CLI for even the most trivial use cases is fraught with correctness and security bugs. For example, even this simple wrapper is unsafe:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -euo pipefail

folderify $1

(There are at least two trivial issues that will cause this to fail or do something unexpected when passed the name of a file. These can turn into security bugs for more sensitive programs, but I wouldn't put it past someone to construct a security bug using folderify's functionality.)

A good first step would be to define and publish a proper API in Rust, adapted from the clap definitions.

[lgarron]

For the record, in case anyone does implement a simple wrapper like that: Here's a much safer version.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -euo pipefail

folderify -- "$1"