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:phidia...@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 <garydgreg...@gmail.com>wrote: > Would this only be for Windows? What do URIs look like? > > Gary > > On Dec 28, 2012, at 14:18, Mark Fortner <phidia...@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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
