I want to use the Java WatchService in an IDE-like tool. It seems like a good match for the behaviors I need from it. The trick is that my customers use the tool in all sorts of interesting environments. Most of the time, the files are on the local disk, but often the files will be on some mounted network
Tag: filesystems
How to get the inmediate child directory of a file path in Java?
I want to navigate the file system and get the path to the child of a directory (if exists) without the root. For example: Input: Users/Documents/SVG Output: Documents/SVG My solution so far is to hardcode a string manipulation of the path: Is there a more elegant way to do this? Answer Path.relativize() can …
how to get all the apps that can open file to arrayList
how i can get all the apps that can open file to ArrayList? i am using this code to open file:- preview Answer intead of calling startActivity just use queryIntentActivities you can also try with MATCH_ALL flag or whatever you need. more to inspect in DOC
Resource won’t load when exported as a JAR
Using the following code to set a system property: ClassLoader classLoader = StartMain.class.getClassLoader(); URL resource = classLoader.getResource(“com/myname/lib/chromedriver/…
How to move files to year/month/day folders based on timestamp in java [closed]
Closed. This question needs to be more focused. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it focuses on one problem only by editing this post. Closed 5 years ago. Improve this question I have files with timestamp as its fileName. I want to move these files in…
Hadoop 2.6.0 Browsing filesystem Java
I have installed a basic hadoop cluster on CentOS 6.6 and want to write a few basic programs (browse the filesystem, delete/add files, etc) but I’m struggling to get even the most basic app working. When running some basic code to list the contents of a directory to the console I get the following error…
Java Zip File System Provider: ReadOnly on remote drive [Windows]
I have a problem with Zip File System Provider: If the zip file is on a remote drive (mapped or not seems to be irrelevant), the virtual file system is readonly, although the file itself is not. I wrote a minimal sample code: If workingDir is a local directory, everything works fine. However, if it is a (mapp…
Java Tree to represent filesystem (files/dir) from list of paths
I’ve a list of paths like this So from this list of paths (Stings) I need to crete a Java Tree structure that has folders as nodes and files as leaf (there wont be empty folders as leaf). What I need I think is the add method where I pass to them a String (path of the file) and it
Most efficient way to check if a file is empty in Java on Windows
I am trying to check if a log file is empty (meaning no errors) or not, in Java, on Windows. I have tried using 2 methods so far. Method 1 (Failure) Method 2 (Failure) Now both these methods fail at times when the log file is empty (has no content), yet the file size is not zero (2 bytes). What
Get size of folder or file
How can I retrieve size of folder or file in Java? Answer This returns the length of the file in bytes or 0 if the file does not exist. There is no built-in way to get the size of a folder, you are going to have to walk the directory tree recursively (using the listFiles() method of a file object