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Stephane Epardaud

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Apr 3, 2015, 4:16:44 AM4/3/15

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It's not clear to me that I can use our resources API for packing files and extracting them. I want to write a Ceylon API plugin which lets me do scaffolding, so I'd like to pack some template projects in my .car and extract some of them at runtime to a folder on the user's machine. Since we pack resources in the .car, we can only get its URL (which I assume is a JVM-specific URL with jar://....car!/contents-within-car/... which I can't use from the Ceylon SDK) or a text contents (which does not work with binary), so I don't quite see how I can use resources for that.

Am I missing anything or are we missing something? Ideally I'd be able to get a FileSystem view of my resources using ceylon.file, no? Then I could use ceylon.io to read the files and stuff.

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Gavin King

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Apr 3, 2015, 6:05:57 AM4/3/15

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Right, it does not yet really support binary resources. Only text
resources. That's because there is no binaryContent() operation yet.

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Stephane Epardaud

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Apr 3, 2015, 8:08:16 AM4/3/15

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Sure, but if we extend ceylon.file to be able to "mount" our Module then we can access every resource as a file system and handle binary there, using ceylon.io.

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Stephane Epardaud

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Apr 3, 2015, 8:08:48 AM4/3/15

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I think that'd be a nice solution to the problem of resources we've been having.