On 11/12/17 9:43 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
On 11/12/2017 15:46, Jaikiran Pai wrote:
Thanks Alan. Given that the cache itself is being planned to be
eventually removed, that answers the main part of my question and I
can workaround this issue in a couple of ways (disabling the cache
using that system property is one way) in the application, till that
time.
The only remaining part that I'm curious about is this:
> ... would it be a better idea (as an application developer) to use
Path.toRealPath[2] instead of using the File.getCanonicalPath()? Are
these 2 APIs semantically equivalent? The File.getCanonicalPath()
talks about the canonical path being "unique" paths but the
Path.toRealPath has no such mentions.
The main semantic difference is that toRealPath method can only return
the real path of existing file (the file must exist). I don't know if
that helps with your scenario or not.
It won't help in the specific case where I was thinking of using this,
but it's a good detail to know. Thank you.
-Jaikiran
