ah sadly i did think of that when i was writing it but it didn't work. Not 100%
sure why, but i think mostly that many of those methods in Files take a varargs
of stuff like LinkOption... OpenOption... and the groovy category support isn't
resolving properties past that.
--
Rachel Greenham
rac...@merus.eu
> On 20 Oct 2021, at 11:55, MG <mg...@arscreat.com> wrote:
>
> Don't know if you already know this, but using Groovy property syntax makes
> code even more readable, e.g.:
>
> println "${it}: ${it.getOwner()} ${it.getPosixFilePermissions()}"
>
> can be written as:
>
> println "$it: $it.owner $it.posixFilePermissions"
>
> In general:
> 1. Any getter can be accessed without the "get" prefix with a lowercase first
> char
> 2. A simplified string interpolation syntax without the enclosing curly
> braces can be used in these cases
> (same goes for setters)
>
> Cheers,
> mg
>
>
> On 20/10/2021 12:14, James McMahon wrote:
>> Many thanks to each of you who offered guidance. Redirecting back to this
>> today, anticipating success given your advice. Still getting a feel for
>> Groovy so this helps quite a bit.
>> Cheers,
>> -Jim
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 11:22 AM Søren Berg Glasius <soe...@glasius.dk
>> <mailto:soe...@glasius.dk>> wrote:
>> @Rachel Rudnick <mailto:rac...@cirrusidentity.com> that is a very clever use
>> of use - good call!
>>
>> Best regards / Med venlig hilsen,
>> Søren Berg Glasius
>>
>> Hedevej 1, Gl. Rye, 8680 Ry, Denmark
>> Mobile: +45 40 44 91 88, Skype: sbglasius
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>>
>> Den fre. 15. okt. 2021 kl. 17.12 skrev Rachel Greenham <rac...@merus.eu
>> <mailto:rac...@merus.eu>>:
>> Looks like you could pretty much use Files as an extension module and/or
>> category for Path...
>>
>> Hang on, does it work?
>>
>> groovy> import java.nio.file.*
>> groovy> use (Files) {
>> groovy> Path p = Path.of("src/groovy")
>> groovy> println "is directory? ${p.isDirectory()}"
>> groovy> p.list().each { println "${it}: ${it.getOwner()}
>> ${it.getPosixFilePermissions()}" }
>> groovy> }
>>
>> is directory? true
>> src/groovy/benchmark: rachel [OWNER_WRITE, OTHERS_READ, OWNER_EXECUTE,
>> GROUP_READ, GROUP_EXECUTE, OTHERS_EXECUTE, OWNER_READ]
>> src/groovy/xdocs: rachel [OWNER_WRITE, OTHERS_READ, OWNER_EXECUTE,
>> GROUP_READ, GROUP_EXECUTE, OTHERS_EXECUTE, OWNER_READ]
>> src/groovy/bootstrap: rachel [OWNER_WRITE, OTHERS_READ, OWNER_EXECUTE,
>> GROUP_READ, GROUP_EXECUTE, OTHERS_EXECUTE, OWNER_READ]
>> src/groovy/LICENSE: rachel [OWNER_WRITE, OTHERS_READ, GROUP_READ, OWNER_READ]
>> ...
>>
>> oh yeah that works 😉
>>
>> --
>> Rachel Greenham
>> rac...@merus.eu <mailto:rac...@merus.eu>
>>
>> > On 15 Oct 2021, at 15:57, Nelson, Erick <erick.nel...@hdsupply.com
>> > <mailto:erick.nel...@hdsupply.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> > import java.nio.file.Path
>> > import java.nio.file.Files
>> >
>> > File f = new File('test')
>> > Path p = f.toPath()
>> > Files.isReadable(p) // boolean
>> > Files.isWritable(p) // boolean
>> > Files.isExecutable(p) // boolean
>> > Files.isDirectory(p) // boolean
>> > Files.isRegularFile(p) // boolean
>> >
>> >
>> > From: James McMahon <jsmcmah...@gmail.com <mailto:jsmcmah...@gmail.com>>
>> > Date: Friday, October 15, 2021 at 4:50 AM
>> > To: users@groovy.apache.org <mailto:users@groovy.apache.org>
>> > <users@groovy.apache.org <mailto:users@groovy.apache.org>>
>> > Subject: Checking directory state using Groovy
>> >
>> > Hello. I am trying to convert an existing script from python to Groovy. It
>> > executes a number of os.path and os.access commands, which I've not yet
>> > been able to find examples of that are written in Groovy. I have found
>> > similar implementations that employ "add on" Jenkins libraries for Groovy,
>> > but I will not have access to such libraries.Here is a brief excerpt from
>> > what I now do in python. Has anyone done similarly in Groovy? Can I impose
>> > for an example?
>> >
>> > Thanks very much in advance. Here is my python:
>> >
>> > if ( os.path.exists(result['thisURL']) and
>> > os.path.isfile(result['thisURL']) ) :
>> > if ( os.access(result['thisURL'], os.F_OK)
>> > and os.access(result['thisURL'], os.R_OK)
>> > and os.access(thisDri, os.W_OK)
>> > and os.access(thisDir, os.X_OK) ) :
>> > # do some stuff
>> > else :
>> > # dir and file not accessible, do some different stuff
>>
>
