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+%% -*- erlang-indent-level: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; fill-column: 80 -*-
+%%% Copyright 2012 Erlware, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
+%%%
+%%% This file is provided to you under the Apache License,
+%%% Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+%%% except in compliance with the License.  You may obtain
+%%% a copy of the License at
+%%%
+%%%   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+%%%
+%%% Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+%%% software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+%%% "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+%%% KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+%%% specific language governing permissions and limitations
+%%% under the License.
+%%%---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+%%% @author Eric Merritt <[email protected]>
+%%% @copyright (C) 2012 Erlware, LLC.
+%%%
+%%% @doc Trivial utility file to help handle common tasks
+-module(rcl_util).
+
+-export([mkdir_p/1,
+         to_binary/1,
+         to_string/1,
+         is_error/1,
+         error_reason/1,
+         indent/1,
+         optional_to_string/1]).
+
+-define(ONE_LEVEL_INDENT, "    ").
+%%============================================================================
+%% types
+%%============================================================================
+
+
+%%============================================================================
+%% API
+%%============================================================================
+%% @doc Makes a directory including parent dirs if they are missing.
+-spec mkdir_p(string()) -> ok | {error, Reason::file:posix()}.
+mkdir_p(Path) ->
+    %% We are exploiting a feature of ensuredir that that creates all
+    %% directories up to the last element in the filename, then ignores
+    %% that last element. This way we ensure that the dir is created
+    %% and not have any worries about path names
+    DirName = filename:join([filename:absname(Path), "tmp"]),
+    filelib:ensure_dir(DirName).
+
+%% @doc ident to the level specified
+-spec indent(non_neg_integer()) -> iolist().
+indent(Amount) when erlang:is_integer(Amount) ->
+    [?ONE_LEVEL_INDENT || _ <- lists:seq(1, Amount)].
+
+-spec to_binary(iolist() | binary()) -> binary().
+to_binary(String) when erlang:is_list(String) ->
+    erlang:iolist_to_binary(String);
+to_binary(Bin) when erlang:is_binary(Bin) ->
+    Bin.
+
+to_string(Binary) when erlang:is_binary(Binary) ->
+    erlang:binary_to_list(Binary);
+to_string(Atom) when erlang:is_atom(Atom) ->
+    erlang:atom_to_list(Atom);
+to_string(Else) when erlang:is_list(Else) ->
+    Else.
+
+%% @doc get the reason for a particular relcool error
+-spec error_reason(relcool:error()) -> any().
+error_reason({error, {_, Reason}}) ->
+    Reason.
+%% @doc check to see if the value is a relcool error
+-spec is_error(relcool:error() | any()) -> boolean().
+is_error({error, _}) ->
+    true;
+is_error(_) ->
+    false.
+
+%% @doc convert optional argument to empty string if undefined
+optional_to_string(undefined) ->
+    "";
+optional_to_string(Value) when is_list(Value) ->
+    Value.
+
+%%%===================================================================
+%%% Test Functions
+%%%===================================================================
+
+-ifndef(NOTEST).
+-include_lib("eunit/include/eunit.hrl").
+
+-endif.