Sorry, that should have read *FileSystem.listRoots()*. Cheers,
Mark On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Mark Fortner <phidia...@gmail.com> wrote: > Gary, > The File#getRoots() method that you mentioned gets the file system roots > and not user-specific directories like Documents, Downloads, Photos, Music, > etc. > > I ended up creating a solution with maps of directories for each operating > system (or relevant OS version in the case of Windows). I also implemented > a solution for resolving "~" as the home directory in URLs. I can check > these into my project and send you the URLs for the files if you're > interested. > > Cheers, > > Mark > > > > On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Roger L. Whitcomb < > roger.whitc...@actian.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> >> >
