Merge pull request #29 from FAIRDataPipeline/RyanJField-dev

Remove forcing of external dependency #21

Author: RyanJField

include/fdp/fdp.hxx

@@ -43,18 +43,18 @@ namespace FairDataPipeline {
    * Whilst recording it's meta data for the code run
    * 
    * @param data_product 
-   * @return ghc::filesystem::path 
+   * @return std::string
    */
-            ghc::filesystem::path link_read(std::string &data_product);
+            std::string link_read(std::string &data_product);
 
   /**
    * @brief Return a path to be used for a given data product
    * whilst recording it's meta data
    * 
    * @param data_product 
-   * @return ghc::filesystem::path 
+   * @return std::string 
    */
-            ghc::filesystem::path link_write(std::string &data_product);
+            std::string link_write(std::string &data_product);
 
   /**
    * @brief Finalise the pipeline

src/fdp.cxx

@@ -172,12 +172,12 @@ DataPipeline::DataPipeline(
         << pimpl_->get_code_run_uuid() << "'";
 }
 
-ghc::filesystem::path FairDataPipeline::DataPipeline::link_read(std::string &data_product){
-    return pimpl_->link_read(data_product);
+std::string FairDataPipeline::DataPipeline::link_read(std::string &data_product){
+    return pimpl_->link_read(data_product).string();
 }
 
-ghc::filesystem::path FairDataPipeline::DataPipeline::link_write(std::string &data_product){
-    return pimpl_->link_write(data_product);
+std::string FairDataPipeline::DataPipeline::link_write(std::string &data_product){
+    return pimpl_->link_write(data_product).string();
 }
 
 void FairDataPipeline::DataPipeline::finalise(){