Stefan Bodewig wrote, On 08/04/2003 8.49:
On Fri, 04 Apr 2003, Nicola Ken Barozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
* is not as transparent as you say. Tasks could only use the URI if they first check that the object is is our version of File and cast to it.
No... that's not how it's supposed to be. What other method do they need?
You are willing to do more in the File subclass than me.
I thought all you wanted was a way to pass an URI to certain tasks where it is not possible to use them right now. Tasks that only convert the file name to an URI and pass it up to something else for further processing (and this "something else" already knows how to deal with different protocols).
Now I understand that you are trying to move to a complete VFS abstraction with you innocent looking request ;-)
Yeah :-DDD
These are the filesystem types: http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/vfs/filesystems.html
It's cool that it also has a temporary file system :-)
Here are some enhanced Ant VFS tasks: http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/vfs/anttasks.html
I'm not sure whether subclassing java.io.File is the best way to do
this. Does commons-vfs do so?
Nope. Here is the file: http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-commons-sandbox/vfs/src/java/org/apache/commons/vfs/FileObject.java?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
Looking at the system, which seems very well thought out, it seems to me that making Ant use it as the underlying system would really rock the builds.
Also, it needs most of the tools that Ant has, like bzip and stuff.
From a technological POV putting it under Ant as a VFS makes perfect sense, but the problem is the usual one: compatibility.
That's why I proposed to reuse io.File, so that we can hook the new system underneath without touching the tasks.
Before we invest too much time and energy in writing our own layer, we should seriously consider looking for existing alternatives.
Definately++
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