> On 17 Nov 2018, at 16:04, Hans-Martin <pharo-...@fam-mosner.de> wrote:
>
> Hi, I've stumbled upon a 7.0 incompatibility with regards to how file names
> are treated.
> In 6.1, I can use Strings and FileLocators interchangeably to create and
> read Zip archives. That's because StandardFileStream does the magic behind
> the screnes.
Could you give a code example ? What API/methods are you talking about ?
What worked before and does not work anymore ?
> In 7.0, StandardFileStream has been deprecated, and "File
> openForReadFileNamed:" is used instead. That method does not handle
> FileLocators, so code that uses FileLocators to open Zip archives ceased to
> work.
*NO* you should not use File directly.
Just use FileReference instances (however you create them) and work from there.
If you got a string path, use #asFileReference.
FileLocator desktop / 'foo.txt readStreamDo: [ :in | in upToEnd ]
MyObject>>#readFromFile: file
^ file asFileReference readStreamDo: [ :in | self readFromStream: in ]
> What's the preferred solution? It strikes me as illogical that objects which
> were made to reference files can't be used to reference files in these
> contexts. However, there may be a conscious design decision behind this
> change that's just not obvious to me.
>
> Cheers,
> Hans-Martin
>
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