org.springframework.integration.file
Interface DirectoryScanner

All Known Implementing Classes:

RecursiveLeafOnlyDirectoryScanner

public interface DirectoryScanner

Strategy for scanning directories. Implementations may select all children and grandchildren of the scanned directory in any order. This interface is intended to enable the selection and ordering of files in a directory like RecursiveDirectoryScanner. If the only requirement is to ignore certain files a FileListFilter implementation should suffice.

Author:

Iwein Fuld

Method Summary

java.io.File[]

listFiles(java.io.File directory) Scans the directory according to the strategy particular to this implementation and returns the selected files as a File array.

Method Detail

listFiles

java.io.File[] listFiles(java.io.File directory)
                         throws java.lang.IllegalArgumentException

Scans the directory according to the strategy particular to this implementation and returns the selected files as a File array.

Parameters:

directory - the directory to scan for files

Returns:

a list of files representing the content of the directory

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException