How to check if a folder exists

Question

I am playing a bit with the new Java 7 IO features, actually I trying to receive all the xml files of a folder. But this throws an exception when the folder does not exist,

Answer 1

Quite simple:

new File("/Path/To/File/or/Directory").exists();

And if you want to be certain it is a directory:

File f = new File("/Path/To/File/or/Directory");
if (f.exists() && f.isDirectory()) {
   ...
}

Answer 2

Generate a file from the string of your folder directory

String path="Folder directory";    
File file = new File(path);

and use method exist.
If you want to generate the folder you sould use mkdir()

if (!file.exists()) {
            System.out.print("No Folder");
            file.mkdir();
            System.out.print("Folder created");
        }

Answer 3

You need to transform your Path into a File and test for existence:

for(Path entry: stream){
  if(entry.toFile().exists()){
    log.info("working on file " + entry.getFileName());
  }
}

Answer 4

import java.io.File;
import java.nio.file.Paths;

public class Test
{

  public static void main(String[] args)
  {

    File file = new File("C:\\Temp");
    System.out.println("File Folder Exist" + isFileDirectoryExists(file));
    System.out.println("Directory Exists" + isDirectoryExists("C:\\Temp"));

  }

  public static boolean isFileDirectoryExists(File file)

  {
    if (file.exists())
    {
      return true;
    }
    return false;
  }

  public static boolean isDirectoryExists(String directoryPath)

  {
    if (!Paths.get(directoryPath).toFile().isDirectory())
    {
      return false;
    }
    return true;
  }

}

Answer 5

There is no need to separately call the exists() method, as isDirectory() implicitly checks whether the directory exists or not.

Answer 6

File sourceLoc=new File("/a/b/c/folderName");
boolean isFolderExisted=false;
sourceLoc.exists()==true?sourceLoc.isDirectory()==true?isFolderExisted=true:isFolderExisted=false:isFolderExisted=false;