Questions on the NIO.2 API

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi Alan,

On Monday, January 31, 2011, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
> Martijn Verburg wrote:
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> :
> I think it could be made clearer in the Javadocs at the level of the class description?  Something like that type and store are almost free text field meta information?  The docs on the two getters for name and type are pretty clear ("...implementation specific..").
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> I instinctively thought about using storage type as an additional check. For example I may have plugged in an incorrect USB stick (with an incompatible file storage) or some dastardly Hollywood villain has inserted a storage device that's almost identical to the one that our system is used to seeing.  Pity s/he didn't know about different storage types - sound the alarm!
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> I suspect you might be thinking about the volume name/label or volume serial number. In our Windows provider then the name method returns the volume name. The volume serial number (that get sets when the volume is formatted) isn't known to the API but can be retrieved via the getAttribute method if really needed.

That would be my use case as it were yes, thanks for the pointer!

Cheers,
Martijn