From 616de76d312558e44426ec4f77863844ce5d8001 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Thompson <azyle0823@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2026 15:58:26 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Added function to allow retrieval of a data location path
 from a desired data loader path

---
 FileUtilities/DataLoader.cs        | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 FileUtilities/FileUtilities.csproj |  4 ++--
 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/FileUtilities/DataLoader.cs b/FileUtilities/DataLoader.cs
index ffa25ce..f6634c0 100644
--- a/FileUtilities/DataLoader.cs
+++ b/FileUtilities/DataLoader.cs
@@ -374,6 +374,36 @@ public static bool TryFindFullPath(string filePath, DataLocation location,
         return false;
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Attempts to find the full directory path for the passed in DataLocation
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="location">The data location type to try to find a directory path for</param>
+    /// <param name="directoryPath">The full data path to the desired data location</param>
+    /// <typeparam name="TLoader">The data loader to get a data location from</typeparam>
+    /// <returns>True if the directory was found for the desired loader type, otherwise false</returns>
+    public static bool TryGetLocationPath<TLoader>(DataLocation location, out string directoryPath)
+    {
+        if (s_primaryDataLoaderPath is TLoader)
+        {
+            directoryPath = $"{s_primaryDataLoaderPath.GetDataPath(location)}";
+
+            return true;
+        }
+
+        foreach (IDataLoaderPath fallbackPath in FallbackDataLoaderPaths)
+        {
+            if (fallbackPath is TLoader)
+            {
+                directoryPath = $"{fallbackPath.GetDataPath(location)}";
+
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+
+        directoryPath = string.Empty;
+        return false;
+    }
+
     /// <summary>
     ///     Helper function used to load JSON data from a file path
     /// </summary>
@@ -517,4 +547,4 @@ private static bool ReadAllXml(string filePath,
         data = rootNode.ChildNodes;
         return true;
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/FileUtilities/FileUtilities.csproj b/FileUtilities/FileUtilities.csproj
index 54ed9f9..f6d2c57 100644
--- a/FileUtilities/FileUtilities.csproj
+++ b/FileUtilities/FileUtilities.csproj
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@
         <Title>FileUtilities</Title>
         <Authors>FluffyVoid</Authors>
         <Description>Collection of file IO utilities including the Data Loader framework that can load file data from user defined data locations. </Description>
-        <AssemblyVersion>1.0.3</AssemblyVersion>
-        <FileVersion>1.0.3</FileVersion>
+        <AssemblyVersion>1.0.4</AssemblyVersion>
+        <FileVersion>1.0.4</FileVersion>
         <Product>FluffyVoid.FileUtilities</Product>
         <RepositoryUrl>https://github.com/ashiryn/FileUtilities</RepositoryUrl>
     </PropertyGroup>