Java better way to delete file if exists

Question

We need to call file.exists() before file.delete() before we can delete a file E.g.

 File file = ...;
 if (file.exists()){
     fil         


        

Answer 1

I was working on this type of function, maybe this will interests some of you ...

public boolean deleteFile(File file) throws IOException {
    if (file != null) {
        if (file.isDirectory()) {
            File[] files = file.listFiles();

            for (File f: files) {
                deleteFile(f);
            }
        }
        return Files.deleteIfExists(file.toPath());
    }
    return false;
}