Re: Creating directories with File

From:
Hendrik Maryns <gtw37bn02@sneakemail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:20:58 +0100
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<fim7au$ves$1@newsserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>
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Ravi schreef:

(fixed top-posting)

Hendrik Maryns wrote:

Hi group,

I am playing around a bit making a program of a colleague a bit more
robust, and have a question about input/output files.

I managed to make sure the input file can be given as a relative or
absolute path now, and even without the required extension with the
following snippet:

String inFileName = args[0];
if (!inFileName.endsWith(".export")) {
    inFileName += ".export";
}
File inFile = null;
try {
    inFile = new File(inFileName);
    inFile = inFile.getCanonicalFile();
} catch (IOException e) {
    System.out.format("Error getting canonical file name:");
    e.printStackTrace();
    System.exit(1);
}

try {
    BufferedReader corpus = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(inFile=

));

Then, later on, I can make similarly named files as follows:

String fileDir = inFile.getParent();
String fileName = inFile.getName();
fileName = fileName.replace(".export", "");
String sigFileName = fileDir + File.separator + "td"
  + File.separator + fileName + ".sig";
final ObjectOutputStream sigfile = new ObjectOutputStream(
new FileOutputStream(sigFileName));

although I get a warning in the first line that inFile might be null.

My question is about the creation of the directory: initially, the td/=

directory might not be there. It is created automatically, and used i=

f

it is already there.

Is this a good way to do this, or should I use File.mkdir()?

Any other remarks on how to do this more nicely? For example, a way t=

o

recover instead of doing System.exit.


Do you mean this?
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/io/File.html#mkdir()


Yes. Although I use Java 6, so it=E2=80=99d rather be

http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/File.html#mkdir()

My question is, though, whether my idiom is good, or whether better ways
exist to do this.

H.
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