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 help You can convert this Path back
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 4 years ago. Improve this question I have files with timestamp as its fileName. I want to move these files into years/month/day folder based on it
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
Delete directories recursively in Java
Is there a way to delete entire directories recursively in Java? In the normal case it is possible to delete an empty directory. However when it comes to deleting entire directories with contents, it is not that simple anymore. How do you delete entire directories with contents in Java? Answer You should check out Apache’s commons-io. It has a FileUtils