# FileAttributeView

Added in[API level 26](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element#ApiLevels)  
Summary:[Inherited Methods](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/nio/file/attribute/FileAttributeView#inhmethods)  

# FileAttributeView

`
public


interface
FileAttributeView
`  
`


implements

`[AttributeView](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/nio/file/attribute/AttributeView)`


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| java.nio.file.attribute.FileAttributeView |

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| Known indirect subclasses [AclFileAttributeView](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/nio/file/attribute/AclFileAttributeView),[BasicFileAttributeView](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/nio/file/attribute/BasicFileAttributeView),[DosFileAttributeView](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/nio/file/attribute/DosFileAttributeView),[FileOwnerAttributeView](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/nio/file/attribute/FileOwnerAttributeView),[PosixFileAttributeView](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/nio/file/attribute/PosixFileAttributeView),[UserDefinedFileAttributeView](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/nio/file/attribute/UserDefinedFileAttributeView) |------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | [AclFileAttributeView](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/nio/file/attribute/AclFileAttributeView)                 | A file attribute view that supports reading or updating a file's Access Control Lists (ACL) or file owner attributes.                                                                                                          | | [BasicFileAttributeView](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/nio/file/attribute/BasicFileAttributeView)             | A file attribute view that provides a view of a*basic set*of file attributes common to many file systems.                                                                                                                      | | [DosFileAttributeView](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/nio/file/attribute/DosFileAttributeView)                 | A file attribute view that provides a view of the legacy "DOS" file attributes.                                                                                                                                                | | [FileOwnerAttributeView](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/nio/file/attribute/FileOwnerAttributeView)             | A file attribute view that supports reading or updating the owner of a file.                                                                                                                                                   | | [PosixFileAttributeView](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/nio/file/attribute/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. | | [UserDefinedFileAttributeView](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/nio/file/attribute/UserDefinedFileAttributeView) | A file attribute view that provides a view of a file's user-defined attributes, sometimes known as*extended attributes*.                                                                                                       | |

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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.  
**See also:**

- [Files.getFileAttributeView(Path, Class, java.nio.file.LinkOption[])](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/nio/file/Files#getFileAttributeView(java.nio.file.Path,%20java.lang.Class<V>,%20java.nio.file.LinkOption[]))

## Summary

| ### Inherited methods |
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| From interface` `[java.nio.file.attribute.AttributeView](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/nio/file/attribute/AttributeView)` ` |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | ` abstract `[String](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/String) | ` `[name](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/nio/file/attribute/AttributeView#name())`() ` Returns the name of the attribute view. | ||