Change History for the General Queries API API - NetBeans API Javadoc (Current Development Version)

Introduction

This document lists changes made to the General Queries API.

Index of APIs

General Queries API

Incompatible changes by date

Fuller descriptions of all changes can be found below (follow links).

Not all deprecations are listed here, assuming that the deprecated APIs continue to essentially work. For a full deprecation list, please consult the Javadoc.

All changes by date

(Mar 28 '07) Default Encoding of System File System is always UTF-8
(Feb 8 '07) Added support for obtaining encoding of files
(Jan 14 '05) Added fileinfo package with NonRecursiveFolder interface.
(Dec 22 '04) Switched to major release version 1

Changes by version

These API specification versions may be used to indicate that a module requires a certain API feature in order to function. For example, if you see here a feature you need which is labelled 1.20, your manifest should contain in its main attributes the line:

OpenIDE-Module-Module-Dependencies: org.netbeans.modules.queries/1 > 1.20

(1.10) Default Encoding of System File System is always UTF-8
(1.9) Added support for obtaining encoding of files
(1.4) Added fileinfo package with NonRecursiveFolder interface.
(1.3) Switched to major release version 1

Changes by affected class

`org.netbeans.api.queries.FileEncodingQuery`

(Mar 28 '07) Default Encoding of System File System is always UTF-8
(Feb 8 '07) Added support for obtaining encoding of files

`org.netbeans.spi.queries.FileEncodingQueryImplementation`

(Feb 8 '07) Added support for obtaining encoding of files

`org.netbeans.api.fileinfo.NonRecursiveFolder`

(Jan 14 '05) Added fileinfo package with NonRecursiveFolder interface.

Details of all changes by API and date

General Queries API

Default Encoding of System File System is always UTF-8

Mar 28 '07; API spec. version: 1.10; affected top-level classes: FileEncodingQuery; made by: jtulach; issues: #94676

Whenever someone queries for encoding of a file object on default file system (e.g. the one that is provided by layers), it will get UTF-8 as the default encoding and not the system one. As a result all resources on layers should be in UTF-8 encoding.

Compatibility:

Added support for obtaining encoding of files

Feb 8 '07; API spec. version: 1.9; affected top-level classes: FileEncodingQuery FileEncodingQueryImplementation; made by: tzezula; issues: #42638

Added a query (FileEncodingQuery) to find out the encoding of the file. The query delegates to the instances of the SPI interface (FileEncodingQueryImplementation), when the SPI implementations don't know anything about the file encoding it returns the encoding corresponding to the file.encoding property. The API also provides getter and setter for default project encoding which should be used by the project generator.

Compatibility:

Added `fileinfo` package with `NonRecursiveFolder` interface.

Jan 14 '05; API spec. version: 1.4; affected top-level classes: NonRecursiveFolder; made by: mentlicher; issues: #52271

fileinfo package introduced for classes providing extra information about files or folders. NonRecursiveFolder interface added. It marks a representation of a folder that have non-recursive content (does not contain subfiles).

Switched to major release version 1

Dec 22 '04; API spec. version: 1.3; made by: jglick; issues: #51468

To indicate that this is now considered a stable API, the major release version was incremented to 1 from 0.

Compatibility:

Clients should begin requesting the new version to avoid a warning at startup.