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Can JAVA create DOS directories?

Aug 3rd, 2007

After my poor showing yesterday I was ready to quit, but I decided this morning I would rather feel dumb than feel like a quitter, so here I am.

I coded this last night thinking if it worked great, if not then I would just drop it. Well it worked ... kind of.

I want to write my JList to a file on the harddrive, so I created a button that does this, and the file is created just fine, in the same directory as all my classes and java files. Not where I want it. I tried changing the path to a c:\data\ directory, but my method will not put the file there, even if I manually create the directory it will not do it.

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	private void btnSaveActionPerformed(ActionEvent evt)
		{
			FileOutputStream out; // declare a file output object
			PrintStream p; // declare a print stream object
 
			try
				{
				// create a new file output stream
				// connected to "myfile.txt"
				out = new FileOutputStream("inventory.dat");	
 
				// connect print stream to the output stream
				p = new PrintStream(out);
 
				p.println (listModel);
				p.close();
			   }
 
				catch (Exception e)
				{
				System.err.println ("Error writing to file");
				}
		}// end SAVE
	private void btnSaveActionPerformed(ActionEvent evt)
		{
			FileOutputStream out; // declare a file output object
			PrintStream p; // declare a print stream object
			
			try
				{
				// create a new file output stream
				// connected to "myfile.txt"
				out = new FileOutputStream("inventory.dat");	
				
				// connect print stream to the output stream
				p = new PrintStream(out);
				
				p.println (listModel);
				p.close();
			   }
			
				catch (Exception e)
				{
				System.err.println ("Error writing to file");
				}
		}// end SAVE

Why can I not change location of my output? And if I can, can I make JAVA create the directory for me if it is not already there?

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Re: Can JAVA create DOS directories?

Aug 3rd, 2007

this is your problem out = new FileOutputStream("inventory.dat");.
Try this and see what happends out = new FileOutputStream("C:" + File.separator + "inventory.dat");

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Re: Can JAVA create DOS directories?

Aug 3rd, 2007

Just for future reference, you can't give Java a relative reference to a file and expect it to create a file with an absolute reference.

"inventory.dat" will be created in the folder that you are running java from (relative reference, relative to the creating location)

"C:\inventory.dat" will be created in the C: (absolute reference, doesn't matter where the creator is)

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Re: Can JAVA create DOS directories?

Aug 3rd, 2007

Thanks for the tip on relative and absolute references.
I added to your line with this:

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out = new FileOutputStream("C:" + File.separator + "data" + File.separator + "inventory.dat");
out = new FileOutputStream("C:" + File.separator + "data" + File.separator + "inventory.dat");

In order to get it down one more level into my DATA folder. It works, as long as the data folder is present upon execution.

Can I not make Java create that folder if it is not already present?

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    public void createFile(String in)
    {
      toWork = new File(in);
      try
      {
      if(toWork.exists() == false)
      {
        System.out.println("DNE");
        toWork.createNewFile();
      }
      if(toWork.canRead() == false)
      	System.out.println("Read error.");
      if(toWork.canWrite() == false)
      	System.out.println("Write error.");
      }
      catch(Exception e){}
    }
    public void createFile(String in)
    {
      toWork = new File(in);
      try
      {
      if(toWork.exists() == false)
      {
        System.out.println("DNE");
        toWork.createNewFile();
      }
      if(toWork.canRead() == false)
      	System.out.println("Read error.");
      if(toWork.canWrite() == false)
      	System.out.println("Write error.");
      }
      catch(Exception e){}
    }

That was an handling function I had for an old network isntant messaging program I wrote. Try doing the same thing, creating the FileOutputStream object from a File object after checking if the directory/file exists. If it doesn't exist, use the "mkdir()" method from File to create the directory.

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Re: Can JAVA create DOS directories?

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Something new. It did not error durning compile. good sign. It did not error during test run, another good sign.
It did not create file or directory either though!

I have done a lot of wrong stuff out here, but I cannot wait to see how I managed this.

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// SAVE		
		private void btnSaveActionPerformed(ActionEvent evt)
		{
 
			File toWork = new File("C:" + File.separator + "data" + File.separator + "inventory.dat");
 
 
			try
				{
				if(toWork.exists() == false)// if file and directory do not exist
				{
				toWork.mkdir();// make directory
				toWork.createNewFile();  // create file 
				System.out.println(listModel);  // print list to file
							   }
				if(toWork.canRead()== false) 
					System.out.println("Read Error.");
				if(toWork.canWrite() == false) 
					System.out.println("Write error.");
				}
				catch (Exception e){}
 
 
		}// end SAVE
// SAVE		
		private void btnSaveActionPerformed(ActionEvent evt)
		{
			
			File toWork = new File("C:" + File.separator + "data" + File.separator + "inventory.dat");

					
			try
				{
				if(toWork.exists() == false)// if file and directory do not exist
				{
				toWork.mkdir();// make directory
				toWork.createNewFile();  // create file 
				System.out.println(listModel);  // print list to file
							   }
				if(toWork.canRead()== false) 
					System.out.println("Read Error.");
				if(toWork.canWrite() == false) 
					System.out.println("Write error.");
				}
				catch (Exception e){}
			
				
		}// end SAVE

p.s. I tried the file name both ways, just incase I misunderstood what you told me earlier.

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Re: Can JAVA create DOS directories?

Aug 3rd, 2007

No, Java can't create directories under DOS for the very simple reason that Java doesn't work under DOS.

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I am most confused then, because I am supposed to use exception handling to create the file and directory if they do not exist.

Maybe I will just put up a message if it is not there telling the user to create it manually and then try again.

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Re: Can JAVA create DOS directories?

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Actually, as I continued to play with it I DID get it to create my data directory by altering this line.
File toWork = new File("C:" + File.separator + "data");

Only problem is that my string now prints to the screen in stead of a file.

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Re: Can JAVA create DOS directories?

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Aug 3rd, 2007

OK, with the fileoutput stream I was able to write the file, but not create the directory.
With the new File statement I am able to create the directory but not write the file.

When I put both in, neither works.

Anyone?

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