TODO
The following is a list of items that need to be completed.
Contributions are welcome!
Release 1.1
- moveTo should handle a directory move if it moves from a different filesystem.
Open
- More documentation (status, file naming etc).
- Fix the
TODO items in the code.
- Add more providers:
- rsync
- subversion
- nfs
- cvs
- jdbc filesystem
- xml filesystem
- jndi
- imap
- local mirror
- spidering http
- ...
- JNDI integration.
- Formalise the provider API.
- WebDAV Provider:
- Add plain http support, and auto-detect dav resources.
- Add set last-modified.
- HTTPS
- Zip/Jar Provider:
- Extract an AbstractLayerFileSystem out of ZipFileSystem.
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Track changes to the parent layer. Eg when the
parent layer is deleted, mark all the files in the
fs as 'does-not-exist'.
- Add support for writing to zip/jar files.
- URL Provider:
- HTTP Provider:
- Support attributes.
- HTTPS support.
-
The local disk caching mechanism also needs more work. Needs
to check last-modified time. Replicator needs to be more
configurable.
- Add persistent replicator.
-
Finish support for junctions: Make ancestors of a junction
point visible, fire events when junction is added or removed,
tests.
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Add support for federation (ie transparently crossing file
system boundaries, such as drilling down into the contents
of a Jar file).
- Add an equivalent of the fileScanner Jelly tag.
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Add an equivalent of Ant path, fileset, dirset, filelist, etc.
Ideally, these can be abstracted into a single data type.
-
Allow selectors, name mappers, and filters to be specified
for the Ant tasks.
- Add capabilities to FileObject.
- Attributes and attribute schema.
-
Handle file canonicalisation better (for cases like
case-insensitive file systems, symbolic links, name mangling, etc).
- Add more selectors: XPath, Ant style, regular expression.
- Add adaptor (NodePointerFactory?) for use with JXpath.
-
Add content-changed, attribute-changed, and move events to
FileListener. Maybe split into structure and content
listeners.
- Get/set the file permissions.
- Automatically checksum and/or verify remote files.
-
Look at adding native code for fine-grained control over
permissions, file monitoring, faster moves, etc. Must be
optional - the thing should still build and run without the
native code.
Library upgrades
The following describes things I discovered during testing newer dependencies.
webdavlib 2.1
- resource.listWebdavResources() do no longer list directories?
Figure out what to do