Fix issue #406 without a location call handler supportsOpen(string) by karlduderstadt · Pull Request #418 · scijava/scijava-common

@hinerm I just built and tested the latest SCIFIO with scifio/scifio#451 with scijava-common 46ca0d0 and indeed the addition of jdeschamps ensures that File>Open... now correctly opens images.

But my custom file types still fail because I have not yet added supportsOpen(final Location source). I will certainly make those small updates to my custom IOPlugins.

Looking at the code in scijava-common, clearly the intention was to ensure backwards compatibility with any past IO Plugins that were written to work with string paths. So I still think we should merge this. Otherwise, there need to be changes that strictly enforce use of Locations. But I think it is nice to support backwards compatibility when it doesn't appear to cost much. I think this is one of those cases. As it currently stands there are breaking changes from the Location update and no way for those writing custom IOPlugins to know.

Thanks a lot for checking on this and writing back @hinerm!