func NewLinkedFile()

in code/go/internal/linkedfiles/linkedfiles.go [34:59]

• 23 lines of code
• 5 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

func NewLinkedFile(linkFilePath string) (Link, error) {
	var l Link
	firstLine, err := readFirstLine(linkFilePath)
	if err != nil {
		return Link{}, err
	}
	l.LinkFilePath = linkFilePath

	fields := strings.Fields(firstLine)
	l.IncludedFilePath = fields[0]
	if len(fields) == 2 {
		l.LinkChecksum = fields[1]
	}

	pathName := filepath.Join(filepath.Dir(linkFilePath), filepath.FromSlash(l.IncludedFilePath))
	cs, err := getLinkedFileChecksum(pathName)
	if err != nil {
		return Link{}, fmt.Errorf("could not collect file %v: %w", l.IncludedFilePath, err)
	}
	if l.LinkChecksum == cs {
		l.UpToDate = true
	}
	l.IncludedFileContentsChecksum = cs

	return l, nil
}