Bundled zip FileSystemProvider fails to recognize "readonly"?
Xueming Shen
xueming.shen at oracle.com
Fri Apr 17 15:27:38 UTC 2015
On 4/17/15 6:20 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 14/04/2015 13:36, Francis Galiegue wrote:
>> My recall is that at some point this flag was supported by the fs
>> provider but now the page seems to have changed:
>>
>> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/io/fsp/zipfilesystemproviderprops.html
>>
>>
>> Did I misread the documentation completely and it was never supported?
>>
> "create" and "encoding" have been the two documented property names, I
> don't ever recall having "readonly". Sherman - do you remember
> anything on this?
>
> The zip provider just tests if the zip file is writable and if so then
> newFileSystem creates a writeable file system. If the zip file is not
> writable (or it can't be determined) then newFileSystem creates a
> read-only file system.
>
> -Alan
There is a "readonly" flag field, which is set if the zip file itself is
a readly only file.
-Sherman
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