[jcifs] Re: smb printers with jcifs

[Michael B. Allen]

On Sat, 15 Jun 2002 22:08:25 +0200
Michael Schulze <fry26 at genion.de> wrote:

> On Friday 14 June 2002 23:40, Michael B. Allen wrote:
> > occured.  I  don't  think  I want four more isXxx methods but I would happy
> > with  one  isPrinter.  Or  we  could  have some kind of getType method that
> > returns  SmbFile.TYPE_DISK,  SmbFile.TYPE_PRINTER,  SmbFile.TYPE_DEVICE, or
> > SmbFile.TYPE_IPC   (in  which  case  we  could  drop  isWorkgroup  and  add
> > TYPE_WORKGROUP and TYPE_SERVER too).
> 
> From my point of view I would favor a getType() method. This way one could 
> just have a: switch( file.getType()) { case ... case ... case } instead of a
> if( file.isDir()){ ....} else { if( file.isFile()) { ... }}

Agreed. With this "everything is a node" model I think a getType interface
would be more appropriate.

Mike

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