Dave Roberts wrote:
Emmanuel Lecharny wrote:
Andrea Francia wrote:
Emmanuel Lecharny wrote:
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.
Good point. So is it important that the files are sorted or not
sorted ? Do we have some use cases for it ?
IMHO, I would rather prefer dealing with files sorted in @ order when
I ask for a file list : as a user, if this method returns a sorted
list, this is less work I have to do on my side.
A standard command line FTP Client doesn't do any ordering of the list
information. So as a user, I want to see the files come back sorted
by name. As I recall, every server I've connected to does this.
Then I think that this should be a suggestion for the ftpclient
implementation not a MUST requirement.
I'm suggesting to change the Javadoc should say:
/**
* List file objects. If not a directory or does not exist, null will be
* returned. There is not requirements about the ordering of the files
* but it's suggested to returned them ordered in alphabetical order.
*/
FtpFile[] listFiles();
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Andrea Francia
http://andreafrancia.blogspot.com/2008/07/colinux-linux-dentro-windows.html
