I'm curious at what Ralph thinks. You could consider providing a PR to add the feature to make the class pluggable and see how much code that touches...
Gary On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Carl Eric Codere < cecod...@yahoo.ca.invalid> wrote: > Greetings, Thanks for your quick reply! Yes, you are > correct. I would like to have a way to change the provider, I would > subclass the implementation that you have and use that as content and > contentInfo provider. Otherwise, if its not the case, currently i need to > reimplement everything, right? > > Best regards,Carl > > From: Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> > To: Commons Users List <user@commons.apache.org>; Carl Eric Codere < > cecod...@yahoo.ca> > Sent: Monday, September 25, 2017 5:07 PM > Subject: Re: [VFS] How to override a FileContent / FileContentInfo > provider for an existing filesystem? > > Hi Carl, > > Do you mean org.apache.commons.vfs2.impl.DefaultFileContentInfo > and org.apache.commons.vfs2.impl.FileContentInfo? > > Ralph, do have issue as to make this pluggable? > > Gary > > On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 8:31 AM, Carl Eric Codere > <cecod...@yahoo.ca.invalid > > wrote: > > > Greetings, I am interested in using the VFS library for > one > > of my projects, as it has almost everything I need, but i have some > > questions on it though. > > My use case is as follows:* For the local file system, I use DESCRIPT.ION > > files to store attributes of files and directories, so I would need to > > override some methods of DefaultFileInfo() , mainly all the attribute > > related functions. How can I set my own FileInfo provider? I did not find > > any API in the interfaces to do this, maybe, i missed something. > > * The same is true of FileContent, how can I set my own FileContentInfo > > provider in FileContent ? I would probably use a feature of JDK 1.6 (the > > FileTypeMap class) to override the default implementation. > > > > Finally an unrelated question, why you do not use the DataSource > interface > > in FileObject available in JDK 1.6, is it because of Android > compatibility > > issues? > > Thanks in advance for your help,Carl > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
