I'm still interested in this. I can see the idea of multiple roots
being useful in an SMB file system, or local (Windows) file systems. Of
course, for others there would only be a single "root" (namely "/").
I'm writing a custom provider which could be pointing to either Linux or
Windows. Would it make sense to have a "getRoots" method in
FileProvider?
public FileName[] getRoots();
or possibly:
public FileObject[] getRoots();
which by default just returns a single entry with a path of "/"... Then
the default (local) file system provider would just return the results
of File.listRoots();
Then, Mark's idea of using an enum to get other user-relative
directories could also be (sort of) accommodated with a "getUserRoot()"
which returns the equivalent of "~" on *nix or OSX, and %USERPROFILE% on
Windows (Java "user.home") property.
The reason I think this is necessary is that, in order to do browsing of
all the files in a system, you need to be able to get to all the
relevant top-level locations. And for Samba (for a non-obvious
example), there typically will be multiple shared folders on a system
that you might want to pick from.
I can probably provide a patch by next week. Should I write up a JIRA?
~Roger Whitcomb
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Fortner [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 4:07 PM
To: Commons Developers List
Subject: Re: [VFS] Support for File System Roots?
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
<[email protected]>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 <[email protected]>
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 <
> > [email protected]
> > > 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:[email protected]]
> > > 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
> > > <[email protected]>wrote:
> > >
> > > > Would this only be for Windows? What do URIs look like?
> > > >
> > > > Gary
> > > >
> > > > On Dec 28, 2012, at 14:18, Mark Fortner <[email protected]>
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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