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docs/api/target/index.rst

@@ -12,4 +12,5 @@ law.target
    local
    remote
    collection
+   mirrored
    formatter

docs/api/target/mirrored.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+law.target.mirrored
+===================
+
+.. automodule:: law.target.mirrored
+
+.. contents::
+
+
+Class ``MirroredTarget``
+------------------------
+
+.. autoclass:: MirroredTarget
+   :members:
+
+
+Class ``MirroredFileTarget``
+----------------------------
+
+.. autoclass:: MirroredFileTarget
+   :members:
+
+
+Class ``MirroredDirectoryTarget``
+---------------------------------
+
+.. autoclass:: MirroredDirectoryTarget
+   :members:

law/__init__.py

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
     "FileSystemTarget", "FileSystemFileTarget", "FileSystemDirectoryTarget",
     "LocalFileSystem", "LocalTarget", "LocalFileTarget", "LocalDirectoryTarget",
     "TargetCollection", "FileCollection", "SiblingFileCollection", "NestedSiblingFileCollection",
+    "MirroredTarget", "MirroredFileTarget", "MirroredDirectoryTarget",
     "Sandbox", "BashSandbox", "VenvSandbox",
     "BaseJobManager", "BaseJobFileFactory", "JobInputFile", "JobArguments",
     "NO_STR", "NO_INT", "NO_FLOAT", "is_no_param", "get_param", "Parameter",
@@ -72,6 +73,7 @@
 from law.target.collection import (
     TargetCollection, FileCollection, SiblingFileCollection, NestedSiblingFileCollection,
 )
+from law.target.mirrored import MirroredTarget, MirroredFileTarget, MirroredDirectoryTarget
 import law.decorator
 from law.task.base import Register, Task, WrapperTask, ExternalTask
 from law.workflow.base import (

law/target/file.py

@@ -527,7 +527,11 @@ class FileSystemDirectoryTarget(FileSystemTarget):
 
     open = None
 
-    def _child_args(self, path: str | pathlib.Path) -> tuple[tuple[Any, ...], dict[str, Any]]:
+    def _child_args(
+        self,
+        path: str | pathlib.Path,
+        type: str,
+    ) -> tuple[tuple[Any, ...], dict[str, Any]]:
         return (), {}
 
     def child(
@@ -557,10 +561,12 @@ def child(
             raise Exception(f"cannot guess type of non-existing path '{path}'")
         elif self.fs.isdir(path):
             cls = self.__class__
+            type = "d"
         else:
             cls = self.file_class
+            type = "f"
 
-        args, _kwargs = self._child_args(path)
+        args, _kwargs = self._child_args(path, type)
         _kwargs.update(kwargs)
 
         return cls(unexpanded_path, *args, **_kwargs)

law/target/local.py

@@ -591,8 +591,12 @@ def localize(
 
 class LocalDirectoryTarget(FileSystemDirectoryTarget, LocalTarget):
 
-    def _child_args(self, path: str | pathlib.Path) -> tuple[tuple[Any, ...], dict[str, Any]]:
-        args, kwargs = super(LocalDirectoryTarget, self)._child_args(path)
+    def _child_args(
+        self,
+        path: str | pathlib.Path,
+        ype: str,
+    ) -> tuple[tuple[Any, ...], dict[str, Any]]:
+        args, kwargs = super(LocalDirectoryTarget, self)._child_args(path, type)
         kwargs["fs"] = self.fs
         return args, kwargs