Java 8+ version:
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.nio.file.Files;
Files.createDirectories(Paths.get("/Your/Path/Here"));
The Files.createDirectories() creates a new directory and parent directories that do not exist. This method does not throw an exception if the directory already exists.
Java 8+ version:
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.nio.file.Files;
Files.createDirectories(Paths.get("/Your/Path/Here"));
The Files.createDirectories() creates a new directory and parent directories that do not exist. This method does not throw an exception if the directory already exists.
This code checks for the existence of the directory first and creates it if not, and creates the file afterwards. Please note that I couldn't verify some of your method calls as I don't have your complete code, so I'm assuming the calls to things like getTimeStamp() and getClassName() will work. You should also do something with the possible IOException that can be thrown when using any of the java.io.* classes - either your function that writes the files should throw this exception (and it be handled elsewhere), or you should do it in the method directly. Also, I assumed that id is of type String - I don't know as your code doesn't explicitly define it. If it is something else like an int, you should probably cast it to a String before using it in the fileName as I have done here.
Also, I replaced your append calls with concat or + as I saw appropriate.
public void writeFile(String value){
String PATH = "/remote/dir/server/";
String directoryName = PATH.concat(this.getClassName());
String fileName = id + getTimeStamp() + ".txt";
File directory = new File(directoryName);
if (! directory.exists()){
directory.mkdir();
// If you require it to make the entire directory path including parents,
// use directory.mkdirs(); here instead.
}
File file = new File(directoryName + "/" + fileName);
try{
FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(file.getAbsoluteFile());
BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(fw);
bw.write(value);
bw.close();
}
catch (IOException e){
e.printStackTrace();
System.exit(-1);
}
}
You should probably not use bare path names like this if you want to run the code on Microsoft Windows - I'm not sure what it will do with the / in the filenames. For full portability, you should probably use something like File.separator to construct your paths.
Edit: According to a comment by JosefScript below, it's not necessary to test for directory existence. The directory.mkdir() call will return true if it created a directory, and false if it didn't, including the case when the directory already existed.
new File("/path/directory").mkdirs();
Here "directory" is the name of the directory you want to create/exist.
After ~7 year, I will update it to better approach which is suggested by Bozho.
File theDir = new File("/path/directory");
if (!theDir.exists()){
theDir.mkdirs();
}
You have to actually call some method to create the directories. Just creating a file object will not create the corresponding file or directory on the file system.
You can use File#mkdirs() method to create the directory: -
theFile.mkdirs();
Difference between File#mkdir() and File#mkdirs() is that, the later will create any intermediate directory if it does not exist.
Use this code spinet for create intermediate folders if one doesn't exist while creating/editing file:
File outFile = new File("/dir1/dir2/dir3/test.file");
outFile.getParentFile().mkdirs();
outFile.createNewFile();
File f = new File("./Database/Movies.json");
if(f.exists() && !f.isDirectory())
//write your json file
How do I check if a file exists in Java?
You have mentioned in the question that this code will not work if the file does not exist. Well if it does not exist then here is how you can create it.
File yourFile = new File("./Database/Movies.json");
if(!yourFile.exists()) {
yourFile.createNewFile(); //creating it
}
else if(yourFile.exists() && !yourFile.isDirectory()) {
//append it
}
This is what I did to solve this "problem" or misuse of the libraries.
Files.createDirectories(path.getParent());
Files.createFile(path);
The first line will get the parent directory, so lets say this is what I want to create "/a/b/c/hello.txt", the parent directory will be "/a/b/c/".
The second like will create the file within that directory.
Have you looked at the javadoc? createDirectories only creates... directories. If you're intent on using Files.createDirectories, parse off the file name, call createDirectories passing only the path portion, then create a new file passing the entire path. Otherwise this is a better approach.
Files.createDirectories(path.substring(0, path.lastIndexOf(File.separator)+1));
File yourFile = new File(path);