Hi Alex,
conceptually paths are URIs but the format of the URI is very strict and
often non-human readable. It also does not lend itself to different
"shortcuts", such as the relative path in the classpath.
But if you can do a spike showing how URI can be used while still
maintaining readability (since they appear in the GivenStories), then we
can certaintly consider the change.
Cheers
On 27/08/2012 00:32, Alexander Lehmann wrote:
I think it would be best to represent the story locations with an URI,
which can be converted to a File object if it is a file url or to an
URL if it represents one. I'm not sure how this works for classpath
references, there is a URI type for files inside jars though, maybe
this can be used as well.
On 27.08.2012 00:43, Mauro Talevi wrote:
A story can be both local and remote, and locally both in filesystem and
in classpath.
How are we going to represent these cases by using only a File object?
The idea is to use a string representation that can be converted to File
or URL on demand.
What are the proposed changes in this regard?
On 26/08/2012 19:54, Alexander Lehmann wrote:
I fixed a few issues a while back that all came from the fact that
switching between File objects, URL objects and Strings to represent
files causes problems sometimes (this was released with 3.6 I think).
In a previous issue about this Mauro mentioned it would be necessary
to write the handling of paths to make this work, even though it
turned out that this was not necessary, I wonder if the handling of
paths could be further improved by using File objects where possible.
However I'm not sure what you had in mind to change.
I think it would be a good idea to change this, if at all, for the 4.x
version.
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