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Re: [platform-core-dev] Pathology, take two
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In addtition to the concerns raised below about which from method is
used for reading things in, I'm also concerned about the way the
representations are written out.
For example, imagine the user were to create a new file, providing the
filename
'foo:bar'. When they look in the package explorer do they see it
represented as
'foo::bar'? I can see no end of confusion from that. Particularly when
a user who is not using
Eclipse but is working on the same code base sends an Eclipse user in
search of the file 'foo:bar'. When the user examines a file
properties, do they see 'foo::bar' (toString) or 'foo:bar'
(toOSString). I would expect the former, and I would expect it to be a
fairly ugly artifact.
What happens if I use the file search and provide a filename pattern
'foo:bar' because my
coworker who uses emacs refered me to something in that filename, will
it be searched
through? What if I'm searching with a filename pattern like 'foo::bar'
because
I was directed to look for something in that filename by a coworker
using Eclipse who
read that name off of the package explorer?
If the toString() colon escaped form is being used for display what
happens to
semantic information that colon name conveys? foo.20041006_10::54::31
seems less
suggestive.
I would seem to me that dealing correctly and sanely with all the miriad
colon escaping
cases could be quite maddening, and possibly not doable in a reasonable way.
Ed
Ed Burnette wrote:
The difference between Path.fromString() and Path.fromOSString() is
really subtle. Can you provide some more examples of inputs and
outputs of these functions (as would go into creating a testcase)?
Also some more guidance about which one to call would be helpful. For
example, which would you use for paths entered by a user in a dialog?
Paths that come from a user written config file? Paths that come from
a message file? Paths hardcoded in a Java program? Output from
URI.getPath()? URL.getPath()? File.getPath(), .getAbsolutePath(), and
.getCanonicalPath()? Etc....
