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FileStore.GetAttribute(String) Method

Definition

Reads the value of a file store attribute.

[Android.Runtime.Register("getAttribute", "(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/Object;", "GetGetAttribute_Ljava_lang_String_Handler", ApiSince=26)]
public abstract Java.Lang.Object? GetAttribute (string? attribute);
[<Android.Runtime.Register("getAttribute", "(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/Object;", "GetGetAttribute_Ljava_lang_String_Handler", ApiSince=26)>]
abstract member GetAttribute : string -> Java.Lang.Object

Parameters

attribute
String

the attribute to read

Returns

the attribute value; null may be valid for some attributes

Attributes

Remarks

Reads the value of a file store attribute.

The attribute parameter identifies the attribute to be read and takes the form: <blockquote> view-name<b>:</b>attribute-name</blockquote> where the character ':' stands for itself.

view-name is the FileStoreAttributeView#name name of a FileStore AttributeView that identifies a set of file attributes. attribute-name is the name of the attribute.

<b>Usage Example:</b> Suppose we want to know if ZFS compression is enabled (assuming the "zfs" view is supported):

boolean compression = (Boolean)fs.getAttribute("zfs:compression");

Java documentation for java.nio.file.FileStore.getAttribute(java.lang.String).

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Applies to