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UDF filter in directoryCopy doesn't know if each resource path is a file or folder

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When copying a folder with directoryCopy(), if you are using a UDF filter, there is no way to tell if a given resource path is a file or folder since you're only given the name. Is "foo" a file named "foo" or a folder named "foo"?

This makes implementing something like Git's ignore rules difficult since it treats files different than folders. For instance,

foo/ will match a directory foo and paths underneath it, but will not match a regular file or a symbolic link foo


http://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore

I propose adding a "type" argument to the filter UDF.

directoryCopy( src, dest, true, function( path, type ){ if( arguments.type == 'dir' ) { .... } });

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Brad Wood 3 October 2017 at 21:09

Man, this 3-yr old ticket is still killing me. I've got a process in CommandBox that filters packages as they're installed and I have to call directoryExists() on every single path that comes through the closure. I've got one package with about 40,000 filtered files and it literally takes a solid 10 seconds worth of directoryExists() calls to figure out which of the paths are files and which ones are folders. All just so I can tack a "/" on to the end of the folder names! If the information of whether a path is a directory or not is available, it would be so useful.

Brad Wood 22 July 2015 at 19:08

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Created 22 July 2015 at 19:08
Updated 28 January 2025 at 10:27