2011/7/18 Michael Nordman <[email protected]> > BlobBuilder.getFile() as a solution to this particular problem is less > direct (and less obvious and less discoverable so less friendly). And it > raises questions like... Is the blob data really flattened out as a file on > the disk somewhere? If not, then getFile() is somewhat misleading. Is so, we > may have to create actual files when we otherwise wouldn't. Where is this > file created? When does it get deleted? >
If these are questions, they should be answered. My understanding is that there's no requirement that File objects have any relationship to files on the user's filesystem; that's a use case of the type, not its definition. (That said, I don't have an opinion on whether the type is appropriate here.) -- Glenn Maynard
