Emmanuel Lecharny wrote:
Andrea Francia wrote:
Niklas Gustavsson wrote:
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Andrea Francia
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Why should I do this?
Because it's the order that will be returned to the client, and if
it's a long listing it's better to let the implementation do the
ordering than do it afterwards.
I think that sorting should be a client issue and a client decision.
The client choose to sort by name, modification time, user, group or
whatever he wants.
There is a specification in some RFC that dictate that the FTP server
should return files names in alfabetical order?
There is none. But does it make any difference ?
I don't think that sorting the files in alphabetic order is a problem
at all. It's just an extra functionality you get for free.
However, why don't we add a method :
listFiles( boolean ordered )
which will return the files ordered - or not - depending on the
boolean value ? The original listFiles() will always return an ordered
files list (and I really don't see how it can hurts, but maybe there
are some corner case where this method should returns the unordered
list of files).
Does it sounds a good idea ?
I think that before designing a new method we will ask ourself if there
is a Use Case where it is used.
--
Andrea Francia
http://andreafrancia.blogspot.com/2008/07/colinux-linux-dentro-windows.html
