Added in API level 26

FileAttributeView

interface FileAttributeView : AttributeView

java.nio.file.attribute.FileAttributeView

Known Direct Subclasses BasicFileAttributeView, FileOwnerAttributeView, UserDefinedFileAttributeView BasicFileAttributeView A file attribute view that provides a view of a basic set of file attributes common to many file systems. FileOwnerAttributeView A file attribute view that supports reading or updating the owner of a file. UserDefinedFileAttributeView A file attribute view that provides a view of a file's user-defined attributes, sometimes known as extended attributes.

Known Indirect Subclasses AclFileAttributeView, DosFileAttributeView, PosixFileAttributeViewPosixFileAttributeView AclFileAttributeView A file attribute view that supports reading or updating a file's Access Control Lists (ACL) or file owner attributes. DosFileAttributeView A file attribute view that provides a view of the legacy "DOS" file attributes. PosixFileAttributeView A file attribute view that provides a view of the file attributes commonly associated with files on file systems used by operating systems that implement the Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) family of standards. PosixFileAttributeView A file attribute view that provides a view of the file attributes commonly associated with files on file systems used by operating systems that implement the Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) family of standards.

An attribute view that is a read-only or updatable view of non-opaque values associated with a file in a filesystem. This interface is extended or implemented by specific file attribute views that define methods to read and/or update the attributes of a file.

Summary

Inherited functions
From class AttributeView String! name() Returns the name of the attribute view.