Field Detail

• serialVersionUID

  @Deprecated
  static final long serialVersionUID

  Deprecated. Only public by accident.

  See Also:

  Constant Field Values

Method Detail

• lastModified

  java.util.Date lastModified​(java.lang.String name)

  Get last modification time.

  Parameters:

  name - the file to test

  Returns:

  the date of last modification

• folder

  boolean folder​(java.lang.String name)

  Test if the file is a folder or contains data.

  Parameters:

  name - name of the file

  Returns:

  true if the file is folder, false if it is data

• readOnly

  boolean readOnly​(java.lang.String name)

  Test whether this file can be written to or not.

  Parameters:

  name - the file to test

  Returns:

  true if the file is read-only

• mimeType

  java.lang.String mimeType​(java.lang.String name)

  Get the MIME type of the file. If filesystem has no special support for MIME types then can simply return null. FileSystem can register MIME types for a well-known extensions: FileUtil.setMIMEType(String ext, String mimeType) or together with filesystem supply some resolvers subclassed from MIMEResolver.

  Parameters:

  name - the file to test

  Returns:

  the MIME type textual representation (e.g. "text/plain") or null if no special support for recognizing MIME is implemented.

• size

  long size​(java.lang.String name)

  Get the size of the file.

  Parameters:

  name - the file to test

  Returns:

  the size of the file in bytes, or zero if the file does not contain data (does not exist or is a folder).

• inputStream

  java.io.InputStream inputStream​(java.lang.String name)
                           throws java.io.FileNotFoundException

  Get input stream.

  Parameters:

  name - the file to test

  Returns:

  an input stream to read the contents of this file

  Throws:

  java.io.FileNotFoundException - if the file does not exist or is invalid

• outputStream

  java.io.OutputStream outputStream​(java.lang.String name)
                             throws java.io.IOException

  Get output stream.

  Parameters:

  name - the file to test

  Returns:

  output stream to overwrite the contents of this file

  Throws:

  java.io.IOException - if an error occurs (the file is invalid, etc.)

• lock

  void lock​(java.lang.String name)
     throws java.io.IOException

  Lock the file. May do nothing if the underlying storage does not support locking. This does not affect locking using FileLock within NetBeans, however.

  Parameters:

  name - name of the file

  Throws:

  java.io.IOException - (e.g. FileAlreadyLockedException) if the file is already locked or otherwise cannot be locked

• unlock

  void unlock​(java.lang.String name)

  Unlock the file.

  Parameters:

  name - name of the file

• markUnimportant

  void markUnimportant​(java.lang.String name)

  Mark the file as being unimportant. If not called, the file is assumed to be important. Deprecated and new implementations need not do anything.

  Parameters:

  name - the file to mark