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Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 16:50:15 -0800
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Subject: Re: [VFS] Support for File System Roots?
From: Mark Fortner <phidias51@gmail.com>
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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.Whitcomb@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:phidias51@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
> <garydgregory@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > Would this only be for Windows? What do URIs look like?
> >
> > Gary
> >
> > On Dec 28, 2012, at 14:18, Mark Fortner <phidias51@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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