[jira] Issue Comment Edited: (IO-157) [FileUtils] Return target File from copyFileToDirectory()

["Niall Pemberton (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Niall Pemberton edited comment on IO-157 at 3/7/10 11:13 AM:
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I also don't see how changing a return type from "void" to return something is going to ever break compatibility for someone. However nothing has changed since Stephens comment - we were already on Java 1.5 then and I don't see how upgrading to Java 1.5 means binary incompatibility is no longer a problem?

      was (Author: niallp):
    I also don't see how changing a return type from "void" to return something is going to ever break compatibility for someone. However nothing has changed since Stephens comment - we were already on Java 1.5 then and I don't see how upgrading to Java 1.5 makes any difference to this.
  
> [FileUtils] Return target File from copyFileToDirectory()
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>
>                 Key: IO-157
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-157
>             Project: Commons IO
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Utilities
>    Affects Versions: 1.4
>            Reporter: Kenny MacLeod
>            Assignee: Niall Pemberton
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 2.0
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> It would be useful if the FileUtils.copyFileToDirectory() method returned the target file to which it does the copy.  Currently, it creates the target File object, passes it to copyFile(), and discards the reference.  This could just be returned from the method instead.

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