Interfaces...

[Mark Thornton]

Carson Gross wrote:
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> 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,
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> java.nio.file.Path
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> 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.)
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> The package will be a lot more flexible if you make this simple change.
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> Cheers,
> Carson
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Given that Path, FileSystem and FileStore for example are abstract with 
all methods also abstract, this is already possible.

Mark Thornton