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| <section name="Tasks and Ideas for the future"> |
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| The following are some of the proposed ideas and tasks for commons-io: |
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| <ul> |
| <li>A proper user guide.</li> |
| <li>FilePoller for telling when a file changes. Look in Tomcat, or GenJava[bayard]</li> |
| <li>A "hot folder" handler which triggers an action when a new file has been uploaded to an FTP directory, for example.</li> |
| <li>JoinReader/ConcatReader. One in GenJava, one submitted to Bayard</li> |
| <li>FormattedWriter, when it writes out values it uses Format objects to output them. </li> |
| <li>FixedWidthReader. Reads in files with a known width, ie) mainframe like. </li> |
| <li>Add an additional ByteArrayOutputStream variant that saves content |
| in memory just as the original but starts to write to a temp file when |
| a given number of bytes is surpassed. This is to reduce the memory |
| usage for big "things".</li> |
| <li>FileUtils could use a copyDirectory() method (possibly making use of IOFileFilters)</li> |
| <li>A CsvReader/Writer set of classes in a csv sub-package. Will probably be commons-csv.</li> |
| <li>A Finder system. This may becomes commons-finder. </li> |
| </ul> |
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