Scala uniform, fluent access to files, urls and other resources API. Fluent for java too.

• HierarchicalMultimap should be case insensitive and should have operations to: add/remove from map and contains
• integrate apache commons vfs via Locations.vfs("...")
• UrlLocation transparently manages
  • handle redirects
  • good RequestHeader defaults
  • reuse already opened HttpConnections
  • use proxy if using scalaj/http library
  • manage backpresure from server
    • [TODO] connection timeout temporarly
    • [TODO] maximum connections/ip-hostname? for a specified timeframe?
    • [TODO] delay between requests to same server
  • [TODO] non-blocking IO returning Future/Observable ?
• Version and Etag that is changed if file is changed. A change version/tag doesn't warranty a change in file content.
• Types of Locations
  • Abstract Locations
    • InputLocation - locations that can be read
    • OutputLocation - locations that can be written
    • InOutLocation - location that can be read/written
    • RelativeLocation - part of a location. Cannot be resolved to some content.
    • NavigableLocation - location for which you can find parent/childrens/descendants.
    • VersionedLocation - location trait with Version/Etag/UniqueId
  • Physical Locations
    • FileLocation - HasContent, NoChildren
    • FolderLocation - NoContent, HasChildren
    • MemoryLocation - read/write in memory content - useful for tests.
    • ClasspathLocation - InputLocation from classpath.
    • Stream Location - location from a InputStream. Might not be reopened.
    • TempLocation - location in the temporary file system.
    • UrlLocation - location from a url. Follows redirects if needed
    • VfsLocation - location based on Apache-Vfs library
    • ZipInputLocation - location around zip files
• natural sorting for listing files
• Operation Options
  • CopyOptions: copy metadata forced or optionally if exists
  • OperationMonitor: log warnings
• Default copy should use links. If needed you can specify duplicateContent.

   //Reading from a file:
   Locations.file("/home/costin/myfile.txt").readContent

   //Copying a file to a new folder (and create parent folder if needed)
   Locations.file("/home/costin/myfile.txt").
   	copyTo(Locations.file("/home/costin/folder2/myfile2.txt").mkdirOnParentIfNecessary))

	//Copying a file to a new relative folder (and create parent folder if needed)
   Locations.file("/home/costin/myfile.txt").
   	copyTo(Locations.relative("folder3/myfile2.txt")))

   //read content from classpath
   val text = Locations.classpath("META-INF/maven/org.slf4j/slf4j-api/pom.properties").
   	readContentAsText.get

   //get a stream  from classpath
   val text = Locations.classpath("META-INF/maven/org.slf4j/slf4j-api/pom.properties").toInputStream

For more samples see LocationsTest.scala

• from sbt

libraryDependencies += "org.raisercostin" %% "jedi-io" % "0.18"

• maven resolver at bintray - http://dl.bintray.com/raisercostin/maven

resolvers += "raisercostin repository" at "http://dl.bintray.com/raisercostin/maven"

Projects that are using jedi-io:

• https://github.com/raisercostin/ownit
• https://github.com/raisercostin/my-scala-scripts (see here a script for bulk uploading/importing maven artefacts from a repository/svn/folder to bintray)
• to configure release bintrayChangeCredentials
• to release

sbt> release skip-tests

• Locations.fromString("content"):MemoryLocation

• remove tests from binary release
• add Haddop/Spark like executor for windows: \
  • winutils from hadoop
  • https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/current/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-common/FileSystemShell.html
  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38233228/spark-on-windows-what-exactly-is-winutils-and-why-do-we-need-it
• explain concepts
• add File/Folder concepts
• operations on files/folders
• operations on lists of files/folders (like manual selections or filters in OFM)
• make it async
• make a small 2panel file manager - see trolCommander - other file managers
• Locations.url("file://...") should create a FileLocation?
• add FileStore
• AddHttpsWritable via vfs - http://detailfocused.blogspot.ro/2009/06/add-plugin-for-apache-vfs.html
• add Locations:
  • StreamProviderLocation - location that knows how to open a stream
  • CachedLocation - location that reads the original location only if the cache expired. Useful around UrlLocation, ZipLocation, etc. Check version if changed read origin.
  • MetadataLocation - location that saves metadata associated with the file. See osx files, ds-
• investigate
  • scala arm - http://jsuereth.com/scala-arm/continuations.html
  • scala io - https://github.com/scala-incubator/scala-io
  • spray -
  • akka streams -
• UrlLocation use RequestHeader for mime type and reader encoding. Maybe we need MetadataLocation
• clarify operations
  • do actions (need to resolve to the filesystems)
  • just change in memory representation
• both Resolved/Absolute and Relative could act as destination if they are resolved with src. absolute.asDestination(src)=>absolute2 and relative.asDestination(src)=>absolute3
• see from here https://wiki.apache.org/commons/VfsNext . Is already integrated with vfs.
• add transactional aspect as an option http://wiki.c2.com/?TransactionalFileSystem
• store metadata as YAML (hierarchy, use anchors). Should be useful for id3(mp3), exif(image files) etc.
• add hierachical map (apache collections - MultiValueMap & HierarchicalConfiguration, guava - Multimap, spring - MultiValueMap, me - HierarchicalMultimap
  • apache commons config
    • https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-configuration/javadocs/v1.10/apidocs/org/apache/commons/configuration/Configuration.html
    • https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-configuration/userguide/howto_basicfeatures.html
    • http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-configuration/userguide/howto_properties.html#Using_PropertiesConfiguration
  • https://github.com/Telefonica/java-plainmap
  • see config libraries: http://javaeeconfig.blogspot.ro/2014/08/overview-of-existing-configuration.html
  • https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/boot-features-external-config.html
  • apache Configuration vs typesafe Config
  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15658310/scala-load-java-properties
  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1432481/multiple-values-in-java-util-properties
  • guava ListMultimap via Serializable - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17697974/writing-and-reading-listmultimapobject-object-to-file-using-properties
• design:
  • FileSystems: sink, source, traverse(list, ...), mount/unmount
  • Items
    • src/from - dest/to
    • folder/files
    • selected items
      • manually
      • filters
  • Operations between Items with the Operation Config/Operation Strategy
    • copy
      • followsymlinks
      • including metadata
      • overwrite
      • recursive
      • using symlinks
    • move
• see java.lang.ProcessBuilder.Redirect with types like: READ, WRITE, PIPE, from, to

A container of keys in form a.b.c is needed. The value could be multivalue eventually typed : Seq(value1,value2,value3). Given a container and a key prefix another container should be returned with partial keys prefix removed. A refereence to full key might be useful. A relativeKey concept might be useful? A save/load from hocon, yaml would be nice. A business wrapper around a Config should be easy to use.

• http://javapapers.com/java/file-attributes-using-java-nio/
• https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/io/fileAttr.html
• http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/io/links.html#detect
• http://www.javacodex.com/More-Examples/1/8