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Erlang common utils

Library contains several modules.

ulitos

Function Description
timestamp/0 Return current system time in milliseconds (Note: use os:system_time(:secs) in >= 18.0)
flush_box/0 Flush current process's mailbox
random_string/1 Return simply (not-safe, uniform) random string as list
to_hex/1 Convert string to hexadecimal representation

ulitos_file

Function Description
recursively_list_dir/1, 2 Return list of all files and directories within directory (including subdirectories); optional boolean argument specifies wherether list only files (not directories)
recursively_del_dir/1 Delete directory with all files and subdirectories
dir_traversal/2,3 Traverse through directory from top to bottom and execute function on each path. Fun must have be of a form fun(Path::string(), Acc:list()) -> list().

ulitos_app

Function Description
ensure_started/1 Tries to start all specified applications
ensure_loaded/1 Tries to load all specified modules
stop_apps/1 Stop all specified applications
reload/1 Reload application and all its modules
reload_modules/1 Reload specified modules
get_var/2,3Safeapplication:get_env/2 with default value
load_config/1,2,3 Load enviromnent vars for application. Looks for config file in app's priv dir by default.