Interfaces...

[Carson Gross]

All

 

I'm not on list, so feel free to ignore me, but I'd like to ask that you
consider extracting interfaces for the core classes in the nio2 library.
For example,

 

java.nio.file.Path

 

should have a corresponding interface, with the same methods at Path, so
that people can write code against the interface, rather than the
implementation.  This would facilitate testing against a file system, a
notoriously touchy problem when dealing with disks, and would give
people the opportunity to provide innovative implementations of the
interface (e.not-so-g. putting up a path-based representation of
processes.)

 

The package will be a lot more flexible if you make this simple change.

 

Cheers,
Carson

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