I'm a bit biased on this. IMHO this simplification in the #printString
(which I quite like BTW!) is only applicable to Files in DiskFileSystem.
If you have a FileReference on a non disk filesystem (e.g.
fr1 := FileSystem memory root / 'folder' / 'test.txt'.
"memory:///folder/test.txt"
on use this simplified #printString you'll end up with
'/folder/test.txt' asFileReference.
This might be confusing as this does not mention the filesystem. So you
might end up creating a new instance via
fr2 := '/folder/test.txt' asFileReference.
which is not equal to the original fileRef:
fr1 = fr2 "false"
As I do like the #printString simplification ... why not simply adopt a
URI style scheme for FileReferences. This would allow encoding the
filesystem type (e.g. file://, memory://, zip://, s3://) including
parameters like host if needed and of course the path.
CU,
Udo
On 04/09/16 09:47, stepharo wrote:
It is raining and I will do it :)
stef
Le 4/9/16 à 02:38, monty a écrit :
+1
Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2016 at 10:39 AM
From: stepharo <[email protected]>
To: "Pharo Development List"
<[email protected]>
Subject: [Pharo-dev] About file printOn: method
Hi
I will implement the following because this is too annoying.
currently
'tmp/foo.txt' asFileReference
>
File @ tmp/foo.txt
and it would be much much better to get back
'tmp/foo.txt' asFileReference
So that we can get
{ 'tmp/foo.txt' asFileReference }
> { 'tmp/foo.txt' asFileReference }
and not
"an Array(File @ tmp/foo.txt)"
In addition we should turn the current printOn: method into a
displayString method so that
a list of fileReference can be well display with File @ tmp/foo.txt for
example
https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/18956
