> As far as i understand the community idea - there should be no problem > with this. At least not for me. >
Thanks. > >* Is VFS still in a state of flux? > > > > > Well - quite some time not much happened in VFS - i picked it up now and > > try to implement what ever comes in my head. > However - i try not to change the current api too much. Maybe to one or > other method will be added. > I will be happy to work together with the log4j team to make the > integration into chainsaw reality. > That would be great. Look forward to working with you. > Yes - one of the methods to get a filesystemmanager is by using the > StandardFilesytemManager - it uses a providers.xml where the possible > filesystem-types are defined and also the needet classes. > If the dependency check failes the provider is not available. > > e.g. > <provider > class-name="org.apache.commons.vfs.provider.http.HttpFileProvider"> > <scheme name="http"/> > <if-available > class-name="org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient"/> > </provider> > Ahhh, I was hoping that was the case. I assume I could just bundle a provider.xml file within the Chainsaw bundle. Excellent. > >* This might be File system specific, but does anyone know whether, for > a > >given FileObject, one might be able to read a portion of the, say, text > >file, and only grab the first X lines of it for a preview? > > > Currently a simple InputStream is provided. As always you could wrap it > e.g. into an BufferedReader and use readLine(). > So the answer is YES. > However - we have to check how e.g ftp react if you close the stream in > the mid of the transfer. > Excellent, that is exactly what I was hoping I could do. Start reading line by line, and then close after X lines. > One of the things i would implement in the future is to provide access > to the file by some sort of RandomAccessFile - for sure - for the > filesystems where it is possible. > But it should be possible to use the restart-capability of some > ftp-server to simulate this behaviour. > That is a cool feature. > >* I don't know much about SFTP, but does this support the ability to > >'browse' a remote directory? > > > YES. Yah! > I currently use the cvs-head version of chainsaw2 (and a patched > commons-logging). The chainsaw stuff was motivation enough to change our > > complete custom loggin solution to commons-logging with log4j as > backend. > Keep on going !!! Thanks very much for your reply Mario, I will be busy playing with VFS over the next week, so I'm sure you'll hear from me again... :) cheers, Paul Smith --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
