Wrong exception thrown?

[Alan Bateman]

John Hendrikx wrote:
> :
> Yes, correct it was a directory.
>
> I didn't however specify REPLACE_EXISTING, only ATOMIC_MOVE (and the
> latter is documented to "ignore all other options").
>
> I'm actually only trying to accomplish a simple rename of the directory --
> but I couldn't find any other function that accomplishes this in nio2, so
> I suspected that srcPath.moveTo(dstPath, ATOMIC_MOVE) is the closest thing
> to it.  I must specify ATOMIC_MOVE to prevent it actually moving any data,
> only a rename is desired.
>
> Would it be better to instead check if srcPath and dstPath are on the same
> FileStore and only then call srcPath.moveTo(dstPath) without any further
> arguments?
>   
It's good to bring this up as the assumption has been most applications 
will use source.moveTo(target) or source.moveTo(target, 
REPLACE_EXISTING) and not care if the target is on a different 
volume/file-system. The right thing is probably to introduce something 
like a NOCOPY_ALLOWED or some such option. For you, you are correct, 
that you can check if the source and target FileStore are equal.

-Alan.