From 48fd3e66f5f9ecd1efcf4434eed0286ded0c0667 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthias Beyer <mail@beyermatthias.de>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 18:58:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add implementation for Storage::createEmpty()

---
 src/main.rs            |  1 +
 src/storage/backend.rs | 13 ++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 1dfdd28d..2e711b59 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 #[macro_use] extern crate serde;
 #[macro_use] extern crate serde_json;
 #[macro_use] extern crate glob;
+#[macro_use] extern crate uuid;
 extern crate config;
 extern crate regex;
 
diff --git a/src/storage/backend.rs b/src/storage/backend.rs
index 8ea66cde..65c965e6 100644
--- a/src/storage/backend.rs
+++ b/src/storage/backend.rs
@@ -45,7 +45,18 @@ impl StorageBackend {
         }
     }
 
-    fn createEmpty() -> FileID {
+    fn createEmpty(&self) -> Option<FileID> {
+        use std::fs::File;
+        use uuid::Uuid;
+        let uuid = Uuid::new_v4().to_hyphenated_string();
+        let pathstr = self.basepath + uuid.as_str();
+        let path = Path::new(&pathstr);
+
+        if let Ok(f) = File::create(path) {
+            Some(uuid)
+        } else {
+            None
+        }
     }
 
     fn createFile() -> File {