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Posted to dev@commons.apache.org by "Roger L. Whitcomb" <Ro...@actian.com> on 2013/01/07 00:18:50 UTC
RE: [VFS] Support for File System Roots?
I'm actually working on a similar project to make a new version of the
Apache Pivot File Browser to use VFS. So, I'd also be interested to see
what suggestions the developers here have.
~Roger Whitcomb
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Fortner [mailto:phidias51@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 11:54 AM
To: Commons Developers List
Subject: Re: [VFS] Support for File System Roots?
Hi Gary,
This would be per operating system. So, if I call
*RootFactory.getRoot(RootNames.HOME)
*from a Linux box, that would resolve to */home/<username>*, on a
Windows box that might be */Users/<username>*. It would be driven by
the *
System.getProperty("user.home")* variable. The other roots, are OS
dependent and are subdirectories of the home directory. You might also
have another method like *getRoot(RootNames.HOME, OS.LINUX)* that would
let you get the value for Linux, even if you aren't on a Linux box.
The URIs might look like "/Documents" which would resolve to
"file:///home/<username>/Documents".
This came up because I'm reworking a Swing file manager using JavaFX and
I wanted to clean up the API some and minimize any VFS specific
workarounds I was doing.
Cheers,
Mark
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Gary Gregory
<ga...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Would this only be for Windows? What do URIs look like?
>
> Gary
>
> On Dec 28, 2012, at 14:18, Mark Fortner <ph...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I was wondering if there were any plans (or currently any way) to
> > support File System Roots. In addition to the standard sorts of
> > roots, there are roots like your home directory, the Documents,
> > Photos, Music, Downloads, etc.
> >
> > At a minimum it would be useful to have an Enum of the different
> directory
> > names, with some way of resolving them. Something like:
> >
> > FileObject root = RootFactory.getRoot(RootNames.HOME);
> >
> > and
> >
> > Map<String, FileObject> rootMap = RootFactory.getRoots();
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Mark
>
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Re: [VFS] Support for File System Roots?
Posted by Mark Fortner <ph...@gmail.com>.
Sorry, that should have read *FileSystem.listRoots()*.
Cheers,
Mark
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Mark Fortner <ph...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Gary,
> The File#getRoots() method that you mentioned gets the file system roots
> and not user-specific directories like Documents, Downloads, Photos, Music,
> etc.
>
> I ended up creating a solution with maps of directories for each operating
> system (or relevant OS version in the case of Windows). I also implemented
> a solution for resolving "~" as the home directory in URLs. I can check
> these into my project and send you the URLs for the files if you're
> interested.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Roger L. Whitcomb <
> Roger.Whitcomb@actian.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm actually working on a similar project to make a new version of the
>> Apache Pivot File Browser to use VFS. So, I'd also be interested to see
>> what suggestions the developers here have.
>>
>> ~Roger Whitcomb
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mark Fortner [mailto:phidias51@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 11:54 AM
>> To: Commons Developers List
>> Subject: Re: [VFS] Support for File System Roots?
>>
>> Hi Gary,
>> This would be per operating system. So, if I call
>> *RootFactory.getRoot(RootNames.HOME)
>> *from a Linux box, that would resolve to */home/<username>*, on a
>> Windows box that might be */Users/<username>*. It would be driven by
>> the *
>> System.getProperty("user.home")* variable. The other roots, are OS
>> dependent and are subdirectories of the home directory. You might also
>> have another method like *getRoot(RootNames.HOME, OS.LINUX)* that would
>> let you get the value for Linux, even if you aren't on a Linux box.
>>
>> The URIs might look like "/Documents" which would resolve to
>> "file:///home/<username>/Documents".
>>
>> This came up because I'm reworking a Swing file manager using JavaFX and
>> I wanted to clean up the API some and minimize any VFS specific
>> workarounds I was doing.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Gary Gregory
>> <ga...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>> > Would this only be for Windows? What do URIs look like?
>> >
>> > Gary
>> >
>> > On Dec 28, 2012, at 14:18, Mark Fortner <ph...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > I was wondering if there were any plans (or currently any way) to
>> > > support File System Roots. In addition to the standard sorts of
>> > > roots, there are roots like your home directory, the Documents,
>> > > Photos, Music, Downloads, etc.
>> > >
>> > > At a minimum it would be useful to have an Enum of the different
>> > directory
>> > > names, with some way of resolving them. Something like:
>> > >
>> > > FileObject root = RootFactory.getRoot(RootNames.HOME);
>> > >
>> > > and
>> > >
>> > > Map<String, FileObject> rootMap = RootFactory.getRoots();
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Cheers,
>> > >
>> > > Mark
>> >
>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@commons.apache.org
>> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@commons.apache.org
>> >
>> >
>>
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RE: [VFS] Support for File System Roots?
Posted by "Roger L. Whitcomb" <Ro...@actian.com>.
So, it seems like putting the method in the FileProvider interface is
the right place for it?!
~Roger
-----Original Message-----
From: Bernd Eckenfels [mailto:ecki@zusammenkunft.net]
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 3:53 PM
To: Commons Developers List
Subject: Re: [VFS] Support for File System Roots?
Am 28.08.2013, 00:36 Uhr, schrieb Roger L. Whitcomb
<Ro...@actian.com>:
> The reason I think this is necessary is that, in order to do browsing
> of all the files in a system, you need to be able to get to all the
> relevant top-level locations. And for Samba (for a non-obvious
> example), there typically will be multiple shared folders on a system
> that you might want to pick from.
I also can imagine some providers having multiple instances (for example
two ram filesystems). Today I think this can only be done with different
schema prefix ram1: and ram2: or with having a instance in the
fsoptions.
But in both cases a enumeration of those different instances is not yet
supported without the root getter.
Gruss
Bernd
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Re: [VFS] Support for File System Roots?
Posted by Bernd Eckenfels <ec...@zusammenkunft.net>.
Am 28.08.2013, 00:36 Uhr, schrieb Roger L. Whitcomb
<Ro...@actian.com>:
> The reason I think this is necessary is that, in order to do browsing of
> all the files in a system, you need to be able to get to all the
> relevant top-level locations. And for Samba (for a non-obvious
> example), there typically will be multiple shared folders on a system
> that you might want to pick from.
I also can imagine some providers having multiple instances (for example
two ram filesystems). Today I think this can only be done with different
schema prefix ram1: and ram2: or with having a instance in the fsoptions.
But in both cases a enumeration of those different instances is not yet
supported without the root getter.
Gruss
Bernd
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RE: [VFS] Support for File System Roots?
Posted by "Roger L. Whitcomb" <Ro...@actian.com>.
I'm still interested in this. I can see the idea of multiple roots
being useful in an SMB file system, or local (Windows) file systems. Of
course, for others there would only be a single "root" (namely "/").
I'm writing a custom provider which could be pointing to either Linux or
Windows. Would it make sense to have a "getRoots" method in
FileProvider?
public FileName[] getRoots();
or possibly:
public FileObject[] getRoots();
which by default just returns a single entry with a path of "/"... Then
the default (local) file system provider would just return the results
of File.listRoots();
Then, Mark's idea of using an enum to get other user-relative
directories could also be (sort of) accommodated with a "getUserRoot()"
which returns the equivalent of "~" on *nix or OSX, and %USERPROFILE% on
Windows (Java "user.home") property.
The reason I think this is necessary is that, in order to do browsing of
all the files in a system, you need to be able to get to all the
relevant top-level locations. And for Samba (for a non-obvious
example), there typically will be multiple shared folders on a system
that you might want to pick from.
I can probably provide a patch by next week. Should I write up a JIRA?
~Roger Whitcomb
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Fortner [mailto:phidias51@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 4:07 PM
To: Commons Developers List
Subject: Re: [VFS] Support for File System Roots?
Gary,
I'm not aware of the tilde being used for any other purpose in any other
file system. If a user had specified a directory like "~/mu~noz" as a
home directory it should resolve to the appropriate directory i.e.
"<User
Home>/mu~noz".
As for it being optional on a per file system basis, I suppose that's
possible. Is there a way of storing/registering file system
configurations (ala Spring Context)?
I hadn't really thought about it's use for other file systems. Merely
for use with the local file system. How would you use this in a
distributed file system? What would happen if the remote file system
did not have a home directory (or equivalent) for the current user?
Mark
Cheers,
Mark
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Gary Gregory
<ga...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Ok, that sounds interesting. Can you give us some examples? I sounds
> like it makes sense for file:// only. Did you have it in mind for
> other file systems?
>
> Should the treatment of '~' be optional? Is there a chance of it being
> confused with any kind of legal file reference on any OS?
>
> Gary
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Mark Fortner <ph...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> > Gary,
> > The File#getRoots() method that you mentioned gets the file system
> > roots and not user-specific directories like Documents, Downloads,
> > Photos,
> Music,
> > etc.
> >
> > I ended up creating a solution with maps of directories for each
> operating
> > system (or relevant OS version in the case of Windows). I also
> implemented
> > a solution for resolving "~" as the home directory in URLs. I can
> > check these into my project and send you the URLs for the files if
> > you're interested.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Roger L. Whitcomb <
> > Roger.Whitcomb@actian.com
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > I'm actually working on a similar project to make a new version of
> > > the Apache Pivot File Browser to use VFS. So, I'd also be
> > > interested to
> see
> > > what suggestions the developers here have.
> > >
> > > ~Roger Whitcomb
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Mark Fortner [mailto:phidias51@gmail.com]
> > > Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 11:54 AM
> > > To: Commons Developers List
> > > Subject: Re: [VFS] Support for File System Roots?
> > >
> > > Hi Gary,
> > > This would be per operating system. So, if I call
> > > *RootFactory.getRoot(RootNames.HOME)
> > > *from a Linux box, that would resolve to */home/<username>*, on a
> > > Windows box that might be */Users/<username>*. It would be driven
> > > by the *
> > > System.getProperty("user.home")* variable. The other roots, are
> > > OS dependent and are subdirectories of the home directory. You
> > > might also have another method like *getRoot(RootNames.HOME,
> > > OS.LINUX)* that would let you get the value for Linux, even if you
aren't on a Linux box.
> > >
> > > The URIs might look like "/Documents" which would resolve to
> > > "file:///home/<username>/Documents".
> > >
> > > This came up because I'm reworking a Swing file manager using
> > > JavaFX
> and
> > > I wanted to clean up the API some and minimize any VFS specific
> > > workarounds I was doing.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Mark
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Gary Gregory
> > > <ga...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > >
> > > > Would this only be for Windows? What do URIs look like?
> > > >
> > > > Gary
> > > >
> > > > On Dec 28, 2012, at 14:18, Mark Fortner <ph...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I was wondering if there were any plans (or currently any way)
> > > > > to support File System Roots. In addition to the standard
> > > > > sorts of roots, there are roots like your home directory, the
> > > > > Documents, Photos, Music, Downloads, etc.
> > > > >
> > > > > At a minimum it would be useful to have an Enum of the
> > > > > different
> > > > directory
> > > > > names, with some way of resolving them. Something like:
> > > > >
> > > > > FileObject root = RootFactory.getRoot(RootNames.HOME);
> > > > >
> > > > > and
> > > > >
> > > > > Map<String, FileObject> rootMap = RootFactory.getRoots();
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Cheers,
> > > > >
> > > > > Mark
> > > >
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> > >
> >
>
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Re: [VFS] Support for File System Roots?
Posted by Mark Fortner <ph...@gmail.com>.
Gary,
I'm not aware of the tilde being used for any other purpose in any other
file system. If a user had specified a directory like "~/mu~noz" as a home
directory it should resolve to the appropriate directory i.e. "<User
Home>/mu~noz".
As for it being optional on a per file system basis, I suppose that's
possible. Is there a way of storing/registering file system configurations
(ala Spring Context)?
I hadn't really thought about it's use for other file systems. Merely for
use with the local file system. How would you use this in a distributed
file system? What would happen if the remote file system did not have a
home directory (or equivalent) for the current user?
Mark
Cheers,
Mark
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Gary Gregory <ga...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Ok, that sounds interesting. Can you give us some examples? I sounds like
> it makes sense for file:// only. Did you have it in mind for other file
> systems?
>
> Should the treatment of '~' be optional? Is there a chance of it being
> confused with any kind of legal file reference on any OS?
>
> Gary
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Mark Fortner <ph...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Gary,
> > The File#getRoots() method that you mentioned gets the file system roots
> > and not user-specific directories like Documents, Downloads, Photos,
> Music,
> > etc.
> >
> > I ended up creating a solution with maps of directories for each
> operating
> > system (or relevant OS version in the case of Windows). I also
> implemented
> > a solution for resolving "~" as the home directory in URLs. I can check
> > these into my project and send you the URLs for the files if you're
> > interested.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Roger L. Whitcomb <
> > Roger.Whitcomb@actian.com
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > I'm actually working on a similar project to make a new version of the
> > > Apache Pivot File Browser to use VFS. So, I'd also be interested to
> see
> > > what suggestions the developers here have.
> > >
> > > ~Roger Whitcomb
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Mark Fortner [mailto:phidias51@gmail.com]
> > > Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 11:54 AM
> > > To: Commons Developers List
> > > Subject: Re: [VFS] Support for File System Roots?
> > >
> > > Hi Gary,
> > > This would be per operating system. So, if I call
> > > *RootFactory.getRoot(RootNames.HOME)
> > > *from a Linux box, that would resolve to */home/<username>*, on a
> > > Windows box that might be */Users/<username>*. It would be driven by
> > > the *
> > > System.getProperty("user.home")* variable. The other roots, are OS
> > > dependent and are subdirectories of the home directory. You might also
> > > have another method like *getRoot(RootNames.HOME, OS.LINUX)* that would
> > > let you get the value for Linux, even if you aren't on a Linux box.
> > >
> > > The URIs might look like "/Documents" which would resolve to
> > > "file:///home/<username>/Documents".
> > >
> > > This came up because I'm reworking a Swing file manager using JavaFX
> and
> > > I wanted to clean up the API some and minimize any VFS specific
> > > workarounds I was doing.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Mark
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Gary Gregory
> > > <ga...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > >
> > > > Would this only be for Windows? What do URIs look like?
> > > >
> > > > Gary
> > > >
> > > > On Dec 28, 2012, at 14:18, Mark Fortner <ph...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I was wondering if there were any plans (or currently any way) to
> > > > > support File System Roots. In addition to the standard sorts of
> > > > > roots, there are roots like your home directory, the Documents,
> > > > > Photos, Music, Downloads, etc.
> > > > >
> > > > > At a minimum it would be useful to have an Enum of the different
> > > > directory
> > > > > names, with some way of resolving them. Something like:
> > > > >
> > > > > FileObject root = RootFactory.getRoot(RootNames.HOME);
> > > > >
> > > > > and
> > > > >
> > > > > Map<String, FileObject> rootMap = RootFactory.getRoots();
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Cheers,
> > > > >
> > > > > Mark
> > > >
> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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> > >
> >
>
>
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Re: [VFS] Support for File System Roots?
Posted by Gary Gregory <ga...@gmail.com>.
Ok, that sounds interesting. Can you give us some examples? I sounds like
it makes sense for file:// only. Did you have it in mind for other file
systems?
Should the treatment of '~' be optional? Is there a chance of it being
confused with any kind of legal file reference on any OS?
Gary
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Mark Fortner <ph...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Gary,
> The File#getRoots() method that you mentioned gets the file system roots
> and not user-specific directories like Documents, Downloads, Photos, Music,
> etc.
>
> I ended up creating a solution with maps of directories for each operating
> system (or relevant OS version in the case of Windows). I also implemented
> a solution for resolving "~" as the home directory in URLs. I can check
> these into my project and send you the URLs for the files if you're
> interested.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Roger L. Whitcomb <
> Roger.Whitcomb@actian.com
> > wrote:
>
> > I'm actually working on a similar project to make a new version of the
> > Apache Pivot File Browser to use VFS. So, I'd also be interested to see
> > what suggestions the developers here have.
> >
> > ~Roger Whitcomb
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Fortner [mailto:phidias51@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 11:54 AM
> > To: Commons Developers List
> > Subject: Re: [VFS] Support for File System Roots?
> >
> > Hi Gary,
> > This would be per operating system. So, if I call
> > *RootFactory.getRoot(RootNames.HOME)
> > *from a Linux box, that would resolve to */home/<username>*, on a
> > Windows box that might be */Users/<username>*. It would be driven by
> > the *
> > System.getProperty("user.home")* variable. The other roots, are OS
> > dependent and are subdirectories of the home directory. You might also
> > have another method like *getRoot(RootNames.HOME, OS.LINUX)* that would
> > let you get the value for Linux, even if you aren't on a Linux box.
> >
> > The URIs might look like "/Documents" which would resolve to
> > "file:///home/<username>/Documents".
> >
> > This came up because I'm reworking a Swing file manager using JavaFX and
> > I wanted to clean up the API some and minimize any VFS specific
> > workarounds I was doing.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Gary Gregory
> > <ga...@gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> > > Would this only be for Windows? What do URIs look like?
> > >
> > > Gary
> > >
> > > On Dec 28, 2012, at 14:18, Mark Fortner <ph...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I was wondering if there were any plans (or currently any way) to
> > > > support File System Roots. In addition to the standard sorts of
> > > > roots, there are roots like your home directory, the Documents,
> > > > Photos, Music, Downloads, etc.
> > > >
> > > > At a minimum it would be useful to have an Enum of the different
> > > directory
> > > > names, with some way of resolving them. Something like:
> > > >
> > > > FileObject root = RootFactory.getRoot(RootNames.HOME);
> > > >
> > > > and
> > > >
> > > > Map<String, FileObject> rootMap = RootFactory.getRoots();
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > >
> > > > Mark
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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Re: [VFS] Support for File System Roots?
Posted by Mark Fortner <ph...@gmail.com>.
Gary,
The File#getRoots() method that you mentioned gets the file system roots
and not user-specific directories like Documents, Downloads, Photos, Music,
etc.
I ended up creating a solution with maps of directories for each operating
system (or relevant OS version in the case of Windows). I also implemented
a solution for resolving "~" as the home directory in URLs. I can check
these into my project and send you the URLs for the files if you're
interested.
Cheers,
Mark
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Roger L. Whitcomb <Roger.Whitcomb@actian.com
> wrote:
> I'm actually working on a similar project to make a new version of the
> Apache Pivot File Browser to use VFS. So, I'd also be interested to see
> what suggestions the developers here have.
>
> ~Roger Whitcomb
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Fortner [mailto:phidias51@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 11:54 AM
> To: Commons Developers List
> Subject: Re: [VFS] Support for File System Roots?
>
> Hi Gary,
> This would be per operating system. So, if I call
> *RootFactory.getRoot(RootNames.HOME)
> *from a Linux box, that would resolve to */home/<username>*, on a
> Windows box that might be */Users/<username>*. It would be driven by
> the *
> System.getProperty("user.home")* variable. The other roots, are OS
> dependent and are subdirectories of the home directory. You might also
> have another method like *getRoot(RootNames.HOME, OS.LINUX)* that would
> let you get the value for Linux, even if you aren't on a Linux box.
>
> The URIs might look like "/Documents" which would resolve to
> "file:///home/<username>/Documents".
>
> This came up because I'm reworking a Swing file manager using JavaFX and
> I wanted to clean up the API some and minimize any VFS specific
> workarounds I was doing.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Gary Gregory
> <ga...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > Would this only be for Windows? What do URIs look like?
> >
> > Gary
> >
> > On Dec 28, 2012, at 14:18, Mark Fortner <ph...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I was wondering if there were any plans (or currently any way) to
> > > support File System Roots. In addition to the standard sorts of
> > > roots, there are roots like your home directory, the Documents,
> > > Photos, Music, Downloads, etc.
> > >
> > > At a minimum it would be useful to have an Enum of the different
> > directory
> > > names, with some way of resolving them. Something like:
> > >
> > > FileObject root = RootFactory.getRoot(RootNames.HOME);
> > >
> > > and
> > >
> > > Map<String, FileObject> rootMap = RootFactory.getRoots();
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Mark
> >
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