[SOLR-8260] Use NIO2 APIs in core discovery

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 5.4
• Assignee: Alan Woodward
• Reporter: Alan Woodward
• Created: 09/Nov/15 17:05
• Updated: 15/Dec/15 13:55
• Resolved: 09/Nov/15 18:14

Description

CorePropertiesLocator currently does all its file system interaction using java.io.File and friends, which have all sorts of drawbacks with regard to error handling and reporting. We've been on java 7 for a while now, so we should use the nio2 Path APIs instead.

Issue Links

• relates to: SOLR-8282 Move Java APIs to NIO2 (Path), and ban use of java.io.File