I've done exactly this in Seedling (a HiveMind-ish application platform).
My first attemp using java.io was exceptionally painful. It's currently
implemented in via an abstraction layer called ConfigTree, from which
you can get URLs, from which you can open a stream. Implementations of
the Conf
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Subclassing io.File makes me rather uneasy. Most of its methods just
doesn't make sense for "virtual files" like those inside an
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Hi Gary,
Aren't you concerned that your giant-pile-of-code will behave incorrectly
due to the
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> Hi Gary,
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> Aren't you concerned that your giant-pile-of-code will behave incorrectly
&
Hi Gary,
Aren't you concerned that your giant-pile-of-code will behave incorrectly
due to the fact that a File embedded in a Zip can't implement most of the
File API properly? For anything but the most trivial pile I'd be pretty
worried about unintended, or even damaging, behavior.
On Thu, 13 No
much better to create a new abstraction
(which they've done), so there's no confusion, and less
potential for error.
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Ah, yes, I do recall seing this component, it quite impressive. Could a
[vsf] developer comment on the possibility of a java.io.File subclass (or
subclasses)? I'd rather not port code...
Gary
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