[MSHARED-989] Undeprecate DirectoryScanner and MatchPattern(s)

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: maven-shared-utils-3.3.4
• Component/s: maven-shared-utils
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Konrad Windszus
• Created: 03/May/21 14:23
• Updated: 09/Jan/24 11:54

Description

In MSHARED-898 DirectoryScanner has been deprecated. Instead using the java.nio.file.DirectoryStream is now recommended.
The latter is often no replacement as the parametrization of DirectoryScanner with Ant-style globs for includes/excludes is not supported. Also the DEFAULTEXCLUDES are not part of Java NIO DirectoryStream either.

The same applies to MatchPatterns, which is deprecated and now recommends using java.nio.filejava.nio.file.DirectoryStream.Filter<T>. Please instead provide a Filter for Java NIO for those patterns (regex and ant) and make DirectoryScanner use File NIO internally while keeping API compatibility.

Otherwise every consumer of DirectoryScanner needs to come up with a custom implementation of pattern matching and a lot of glue code.

Issue Links

• relates to: MSHARED-898 deprecate DirectoryScanner