Gary, I'm not aware of the tilde being used for any other purpose in any other file system. If a user had specified a directory like "~/mu~noz" as a home directory it should resolve to the appropriate directory i.e. "<User Home>/mu~noz".
As for it being optional on a per file system basis, I suppose that's possible. Is there a way of storing/registering file system configurations (ala Spring Context)? I hadn't really thought about it's use for other file systems. Merely for use with the local file system. How would you use this in a distributed file system? What would happen if the remote file system did not have a home directory (or equivalent) for the current user? Mark Cheers, Mark On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>wrote: > Ok, that sounds interesting. Can you give us some examples? I sounds like > it makes sense for file:// only. Did you have it in mind for other file > systems? > > Should the treatment of '~' be optional? Is there a chance of it being > confused with any kind of legal file reference on any OS? > > Gary > > > On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Mark Fortner <phidia...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Gary, > > The File#getRoots() method that you mentioned gets the file system roots > > and not user-specific directories like Documents, Downloads, Photos, > Music, > > etc. > > > > I ended up creating a solution with maps of directories for each > operating > > system (or relevant OS version in the case of Windows). I also > implemented > > a solution for resolving "~" as the home directory in URLs. I can check > > these into my project and send you the URLs for the files if you're > > interested. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Mark > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Roger L. Whitcomb < > > roger.whitc...@actian.com > > > wrote: > > > > > I'm actually working on a similar project to make a new version of the > > > Apache Pivot File Browser to use VFS. So, I'd also be interested to > see > > > what suggestions the developers here have. > > > > > > ~Roger Whitcomb > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Mark Fortner [mailto:phidia...@gmail.com] > > > Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 11:54 AM > > > To: Commons Developers List > > > Subject: Re: [VFS] Support for File System Roots? > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org > JUnit in Action, 2nd Ed: <http://goog_1249600977>http://bit.ly/ECvg0 > Spring Batch in Action: <http://s.apache.org/HOq>http://bit.ly/bqpbCK > Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com > Home: http://garygregory.com/ > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory >
