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| Commons IO Package |
| Version 1.1 |
| Release Notes |
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| INTRODUCTION: |
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| Commons IO is a package of Java utility classes for java.io's hierarchy. |
| Classes in this package are considered to be so standard and of such high |
| reuse as to justify existence in java.io. |
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| Commons IO contains utility classes, stream implementations, file filters, |
| and endian transformation classes. |
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| Incompatible changes from 1.0 |
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| Binary compatible - ??? |
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| Source compatible - ??? |
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| Semantic compatible - ??? |
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| Deprecations from 1.0 |
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| CopyUtils has been deprecated. |
| Its methods have been moved to IOUtils. |
| The new IOUtils methods handle nulls better, and have clearer names. |
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| IOUtils.toByteArray(String) - Use {@link String#getBytes()} |
| IOUtils.toString(byte[]) - Use {@link String#String(byte[])} |
| IOUtils.toString(byte[],String) - Use {@link String#String(byte[],String)} |
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| Bug fixes from 1.0 |
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| - FileUtils - touch() |
| Now creates the file if it did not previously exist |
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| - FileUtils - toFile(URL) |
| Now handles escape syntax such as %20 |
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| Enhancements from 1.0 |
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| - FileUtils - toFiles(URL[]) |
| Converts an array of URLs to an array of Files |
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| - FileUtils - copyDirectory() |
| New methods to copy a directory |
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| - FileUtils - readFileToByteArray(File) |
| Reads an entire file into a byte array |
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| - FileUtils - writeByteArrayToFile(File,byte[]) |
| Writes a byte array to a file |
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| - FileUtils - readLines(File,encoding) |
| Reads a file line by line into a List of Strings |
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| - FilenameUtils - new class |
| A static utility class for working with filenames |
| Seeks to ease the pain of developing on Windows and deploying on Unix |
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| - FileSystemUtils - new class |
| A static utility class for working with file systems |
| Provides one method at present, to get the free space on the filing system |
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| Feedback |
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| Open source works best when you give feedback. |
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| Please direct all bug reports to Bugzilla. |
| http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?product=Commons&component=IO |
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| Or subscribe to the commons-user mailing list (prefix emails by [io]) |
| http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html |
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| The Commons-IO Team |
