I have a couple of methods that you might want to include in a FileUtils class:
public static void touch(File file); public static void deleteDirectory(File dir); On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Jukka Zitting <jukka.zitt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 4:42 AM, David Armstrong > <davidarmstrong...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The new functionality is a class that copies files, called FileCopier >> and some helper classes. This class goes beyond the functionality of >> the static methods included in the FileUtils class. It has the >> following functionality: > > Sounds like an useful addition. Can you file a feature request about > this in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO and attach the code > there? It would be easier for us to review the code if you could > provide it as a patch against the latest svn trunk. That way it would > be clearer what parts you have changed and how. You can get a nicely > formatted patch with "svn diff" after you've "svn add"ed all the new > files you've created. > >> The patches I included are pretty minor. For FileUtils.java, I changed >> the access for doCopyFile() from private to protected so that >> FileCopier could make use of its functionality. For IOUtils.java, I >> replaced the multiple closeQuietly() methods with one closeQuietly() >> method that takes an object that implements Closeable as its argument. >> If these patches are not acceptable, please let me know. > > The latter change sounds like something that could break binary > backwards compatibility. > > BR, > > Jukka Zitting > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
