FileProvider (Apache Ant API)
Description: declaration: package: org.apache.tools.ant.types.resources, interface: FileProvider

# Interface FileProvider

All Known Implementing Classes:
  `FileResource`

public interface FileProvider
This is an interface that resources that can provide a file should implement. This is a refactoring of `FileResource`, to allow other resources to act as sources of files (and to make components that only support file-based resources from only support FileResource resources.

Since:
  Ant 1.8

- ## Method Summary

  Modifier and Type
  Method
  Description
  `File`
  `getFile()`
  Get the file represented by this Resource.

- ## Method Details

  - ### getFile

    File getFile()
    Get the file represented by this Resource.
    Returns:
      the file.