[OODT-847] New FilemgrMetExtractor to extract File System Attributes

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.8.1
• Fix Version/s: 1.1
• Component/s: file manager
• Skill Level: Don't Know (Unsure) - The default level
• Assignee: Chris A. Mattmann
• Reporter: Rishi Verma
• Created: 15/May/15 01:13
• Updated: 10/Jul/17 18:23
• Resolved: 10/Jul/17 18:23

Description

It's sometimes useful to extract File System metadata from files that people often see when browsing a file on an operating system.

Examples:

• POSIX permissions
• Datetime stamps, including: lastModified, creationTime, lastAccessTime
• Is a symbolic file?
• Is a directory?
• File owner
• Is hidden file?
  etc.

Java 7's Files.getAttributes [1] does this in a platform-generic way. We should leverage this and add an extractor for the benefit of the community.

[1] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/io/fileAttr.html

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #42