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    directories – A tiny library to help applications stop littering users' $HOME directories ☶ show java programming github.com
    soc avatar authored by soc 10 months ago | cached | 3 comments
  • A tiny library (8kB)
  • with minimal public API (3 classes, 6 methods, 21 fields)
  • for convenient access to standardized directories
  • on Linux, Windows (≥ 7) and macOS
  • running on the JVM

The library provides the location of directories by leveraging the mechanisms defined by

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    soc avatar soc 10 months ago | link

    The idea is that application authors – instead of just dumping their application’s data into ~/.barapp – can use a small API that returns the appropriate directories for each different kind of data an application might save to disk on each operating system:

    import io.github.soc.directories.ProjectDirectories
val myProjDirs =
  ProjectDirectories.fromFullyQualifiedProjectName("org.foocorp.BarApp")
myProjDirs.projectConfigDir
// Linux:   ~/.config/barapp/
// Windows: C:/Users/SomeUser/AppData/BarApp/
// macOS:   ~/Library/Preferences/org.foocorp.BarApp/
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      calvin avatar calvin 10 months ago | link

      In other parts of the world:

      csharp> Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.MyMusic)
"/home/calvin/Music"
csharp> Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData)
"/home/calvin/.config"

> Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.MyMusic)
"C:\\Users\\Calvin\\Music"
> Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData)
"C:\\Users\\Calvin\\AppData\\Roaming"
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        soc avatar soc 10 months ago | link

        True. :-)

        I’m kind of scared of proposing it as an addition to the JDK, because usually additions to Java end up being either completely over-engineered or broken (or both).