Developer (#164)

- State before merging the new cluster vector API

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Co-authored-by: Patrick <patrick.sieberer@psi.ch>
Co-authored-by: JulianHeymes <julian.heymes@psi.ch>
Co-authored-by: Dhanya Thattil <dhanya.thattil@psi.ch>
Co-authored-by: Xiangyu Xie <45243914+xiangyuxie@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: xiangyu.xie <xiangyu.xie@psi.ch>
Co-authored-by: siebsi <sieb.patr@gmail.com>

include/aare/FilePtr.hpp

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+#pragma once
+#include <cstdio>
+#include <filesystem>
+
+namespace aare {
+
+/**
+ * \brief RAII wrapper for FILE pointer
+ */
+class FilePtr {
+    FILE *fp_{nullptr};
+
+  public:
+    FilePtr() = default;
+    FilePtr(const std::filesystem::path& fname, const std::string& mode);
+    FilePtr(const FilePtr &) = delete;            // we don't want a copy
+    FilePtr &operator=(const FilePtr &) = delete; // since we handle a resource
+    FilePtr(FilePtr &&other);
+    FilePtr &operator=(FilePtr &&other);
+    FILE *get();
+    int64_t tell();
+    void seek(int64_t offset, int whence = SEEK_SET) {
+        if (fseek(fp_, offset, whence) != 0)
+            throw std::runtime_error("Error seeking in file");
+    }
+    std::string error_msg();
+    ~FilePtr();
+};
+
+} // namespace aare