Chris Woods writes:
> Paul Kinnucan wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Is there any way to set the current working directory in Java. I want to be able
>to change the beanshell's current directory to the directory of the current source
>buffer so I don't need to specify the full path of the source file to be compiled.
>The beanshell has a cd command but it does not appear to work.
> >
> > - Paul
>
>
> I was able to successfully use the cd("/some/directory/path") command
> from a bsh Interpreter prompt. Beanshell's cd() command is just a bsh
> script that appears to simply set the `bsh.cwd' property, at which point
> I suspect there is code in Beanshell that resets the Interpreter's
> "context" to the new value of the bsh.cwd property.
>
> I haven't looked at the elisp for the bsh interface in JDE, so I don't
> know how you'd make that happen in that context. However, it seems as if
> it should work by calling Beanshell's cd() command, or possibly by
> setting the bsh.cwd property directly.
>
I've already tried this and it does not work. Specifically, I tried the
equivalent of:
cd c:/foo
javac Bar.java
in the beanshell and the compiler reports a "Bar.java not found" error, even
though the Beanshell's pwd(); command reports the cwd as c:/foo.
> I did a little digging in java.io.File as well, and it does sport
> "isDirectory()" methods, and allow creation of a new File object that is
> actually a directory rather than a file. However, it appears as if the
> actual changing of the application's cwd context is left to the
> implementation itself.
>
Yes, unfortuately, that's my impression, too. The problem is I'm not sure
that it's even possible to do the equivalent of cd in Java.
- Paul
