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From: Gary Gregory <garydgregory@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 09:09:59 -0600
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Subject: Re: [VFS] How to override a FileContent / FileContentInfo provider
 for an existing filesystem?
To: Commons Users List <user@commons.apache.org>, Carl Eric Codere <cecodere@yahoo.ca>
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Hi Carl,

WRT DataSource, this is a JDBC interface, which does not seem appropriate
for a file system. Or do you mean javax.activation.DataSource. Apache
Commons VFS was started a long time ago and not adapted to newer JREs in
this area (obviously.)

Gary


On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 8:31 AM, Carl Eric Codere <cecodere@yahoo.ca.invalid
> wrote:

> Greetings,                I am interested in using the VFS library for one
> of my projects, as it has almost everything I need, but i have some
> questions on it though.
> My use case is as follows:* For the local file system, I use DESCRIPT.ION
> files to store attributes of files and directories, so I would need to
> override some methods of DefaultFileInfo() , mainly all the attribute
> related functions. How can I set my own FileInfo provider? I did not find
> any API in the interfaces to do this, maybe, i missed something.
> * The same is true of FileContent, how can I set my own FileContentInfo
> provider in FileContent ? I would probably use a feature of JDK 1.6 (the
> FileTypeMap class) to override the default implementation.
>
> Finally an unrelated question, why you do not use the DataSource interface
> in FileObject available in JDK 1.6, is it because of Android compatibility
> issues?
> Thanks in advance for your help,Carl
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