Hi,
Ok, patches welcome! :)
What happens if there is a c:\Documents folder?
Gary
On Dec 28, 2012, at 14:54, Mark Fortner <phidia...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Gary,
> This would be per operating system. So, if I call
> *RootFactory.getRoot(RootNames.HOME)
> *from a Linux box, that would resolve to */home/<username>*, on a Windows
> box that might be */Users/<username>*. It would be driven by the *
> System.getProperty("user.home")* variable. The other roots, are OS
> dependent and are subdirectories of the home directory. You might also
> have another method like *getRoot(RootNames.HOME, OS.LINUX)* that would let
> you get the value for Linux, even if you aren't on a Linux box.
>
> The URIs might look like "/Documents" which would resolve to
> "file:///home/<username>/Documents".
>
> This came up because I'm reworking a Swing file manager using JavaFX and I
> wanted to clean up the API some and minimize any VFS specific workarounds I
> was doing.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Would this only be for Windows? What do URIs look like?
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> On Dec 28, 2012, at 14:18, Mark Fortner <phidia...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I was wondering if there were any plans (or currently any way) to support
>>> File System Roots. In addition to the standard sorts of roots, there are
>>> roots like your home directory, the Documents, Photos, Music, Downloads,
>>> etc.
>>>
>>> At a minimum it would be useful to have an Enum of the different
>> directory
>>> names, with some way of resolving them. Something like:
>>>
>>> FileObject root = RootFactory.getRoot(RootNames.HOME);
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> Map<String, FileObject> rootMap = RootFactory.getRoots();
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Mark
>>
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