[xwiki-devs] Issues for our VFS API (was Fwd: [truezip-users] Java 8 Support) - xwiki-devs@xwiki.org

2 Jun 2016

Hi devs,

This looks like bad news for our VFS API (our replacement and generalization of the
previous zipexplorer plugin).

We need to test if it still works in XWiki 8.1 (which requires java 8)…

So globally we’re in a bad shape with our choice of using TrueVFS because right now there
are 2 important issues:
* Ability to set permissions, see http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-12912
* This potential java 8 issue

Thanks
-Vincent

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  Begin forwarded message:

 From: Christian Schlichtherle &lt;christian(a)schlichtherle.de&gt;
 Subject: [truezip-users] Re: Java 8 Support
 Date: 30 May 2016 at 21:51:52 GMT+2
 To: users(a)truezip.java.net
 Reply-To: users(a)truezip.java.net

 Hi Zoltan,

 I agree that the TrueVFS Access module needs some maintenance. Actually, I am thinking
more of a rewrite because it contains some anti-patterns, is hard to digest and contains
even a bug. However, this would require some serious amount of time and currently I just
can’t do that. Things may change in winter, but I don’t know for sure.

 Regards,
 Christian Schlichtherle

  Am 30.05.2016 um 17:02 schrieb Zoltán Takács
&lt;zoltan.takacs(a)liferay.com <mailto:zoltan.takacs@liferay.com>>:

 Hi Christian,

 First of all, I'd like to thank you for sharing this project with the community as
it's really powerful and useful for those who struggles with CRUD operations on
archive files.

 I was wondering whether you have plan to support Java 8 in TrueVFS as some issues have
come up which related to the Java 8 e.g. https://java.net/jira/browse/TRUEVFS-159
<https://java.net/jira/browse/TRUEVFS-159> because the Files.walkFileTree()
implementation is changed and when the code tries to get
TFileSystem.FsNodeAttributes.fileKey()
<http://www.atetric.com/atetric/javadoc/net.java.truevfs/truevfs-access/0.11.0/src-html/net/java/truevfs/access/TFileSystem.html#line.508>
it throws an UnsupportedOperationException. 

 The annotation processor also warns about the Supported source version compatibility
issues with 1.8.

 Also noticed that it's no longer possible to register to the issue tracking system,
because the sign up link in JIRA redirects here: https://java.net/people/new
<https://java.net/people/new>

 Thank you for your answers in advance,
 Zoltán 