René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Directory names should have a standard naming convention.","articleBody":"I might add one or another pull request at a later time which will sort out the folder names (retaining compatiblity, of course).\r\n\r\n## Standard path name proposal\r\n\r\nSomethink like `os-arch-bitness[-special]` could work nicely and is a bit more extensible. \r\n\r\n## Implementation details\r\n\r\nA small singleton instance (using an enum since we are on Java 6 now) would suffice for the default mappings. The Map could hold something like this: Map\u003cOsInfo, List\u003cString\u003e\u003e where the OsInfo is a simple POJO which holds the OS name, arch and bitness, and optionally a `special` fragment (like fp on ARM). The value is a list of search paths. The enum instance would only hold the defaults, though.\r\n\r\n## Configuration options\r\n\r\n* Users could supply additional paths via config file.\r\n* Users could also supply additional search paths dynamically by providing a new OsInfo object and a List of path fragments.\r\n* The new `Config` class would then load the defaults from the enum and add the additional entries.\r\n\r\n## Example entries for the defaults\r\n\r\n  * Windows 64 x86-64\r\n    * windows-amd64-64\r\n    * windows_64 (for compatiblity)\r\n  * Windows 32\r\n    * windows-x86-32\r\n    * windows_32 (for compatiblity)\r\n  * Linux 64 bit\r\n    * linux-amd64-64\r\n    * linux_64 (compat)\r\n  * Linux arm64\r\n    * linux-armv7l-64\r\n\r\netc.\r\n\r\n## Other advantages\r\n\r\nWe could replace the big and unmaintainable `switch` statement with this lookup table. In fact, this is the main issue.\r\n\r\n\r\nI might create a pull request in the future for this.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/bmarwell","@type":"Person","name":"bmarwell"},"datePublished":"2019-04-03T09:54:48.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":7},"url":"https://github.com/31/native-lib-loader/issues/31"}