Bug in Files.copy() where the source Path is a directory... It _is_ a bug, right?

[Colin Decker]

On Wed Dec 10 2014 at 4:34:19 PM Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com>
wrote:
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> There have been requests over the years to add support for recursive copy,
> maybe a copyFileTree method but all suggestions to date didn't get to a
> consensus on how exceptions should be handled when only a subset of the
> file tree can be copied. Maybe some day.
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I've implemented a secure (using SecureDirectoryStream) recursive delete; I
ended up choosing to attempt to delete all files, throwing a single
exception at the end with all the exceptions for individual files that
couldn't be deleted. Obviously there are a lot of other things you could
choose to do though.

On a related note, the fact that SecureDirectoryStream has neither a copy()
method nor a method for creating a directory makes me a little sad, as it
makes it impossible to implement a recursive copy that has similar security
guarantees.


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