Interface StandardJavaFileManager

All Superinterfaces:

AutoCloseable, Closeable, Flushable, JavaFileManager, OptionChecker

public interface StandardJavaFileManager
extends JavaFileManager

File manager based on java.io.File and java.nio.file.Path. A common way to obtain an instance of this class is using getStandardFileManager, for example:

   JavaCompiler compiler = ToolProvider.getSystemJavaCompiler();
   DiagnosticCollector<JavaFileObject> diagnostics =
       new DiagnosticCollector<JavaFileObject>();
   StandardJavaFileManager fm = compiler.getStandardFileManager(diagnostics, null, null);
 

This file manager creates file objects representing regular files, zip file entries, or entries in similar file system based containers. Any file object returned from a file manager implementing this interface must observe the following behavior:

• File names need not be canonical.
• For file objects representing regular files
  • the method FileObject.delete() is equivalent to File.delete(),
  • the method FileObject.getLastModified() is equivalent to File.lastModified(),
  • the methods