Java tutorial
/* * Copyright 2007 FBK-irst http://www.itc.it/) * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package com.googlecode.jweb1t; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileFilter; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.List; import java.util.Stack; import org.apache.commons.logging.Log; import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory; /** * Scans recursively a directory. Successive calls to the next() method return successive * arrays of objects {@link File}. * <p> * The following code fragment, in which {@code root} is the starting directory, illustrates how to * use a folder scanner. * <p> * * <pre> * FolderScanner fs = new FolderScanner(root); * while (fs.hasNext()) { * Object[] files = fs.next(); * * for (int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) * System.out.println((File) files[i]); * } * </pre> * * @author Claudio Giuliano */ final class FolderScanner { private final Log logger = LogFactory.getLog(getClass()); private final Stack<File> stack; private FileFilter filter; /** * Create a folder scanner. * * @param aRoot * the root directory. */ public FolderScanner(final File aRoot) { stack = new Stack<File>(); stack.push(aRoot); } /** * Sets a file filter for this scanner * * @param aFilter * a file filter. */ public void setFilter(final FileFilter aFilter) { filter = aFilter; } /** * Returns <code>true</code> if the scanner has more directories. (In other words, returns * <code>true</code> if <code>next</code> would return an array of files rather than return * <code>null</code>.) * * @return <code>true</code> if the scanner has more elements. */ public boolean hasNext() { return !stack.empty(); } /** * Returns the next array of files in the iteration. * * @return the next array of files in the iteration. */ public File[] next() { File dir = null; File[] result = null; if (!stack.empty()) { final List<File> res = new ArrayList<File>(); dir = stack.pop(); if (!dir.isDirectory()) { logger.error(dir + " is not a directory."); } // listFiles is null-safe. A null filter simply accepts anything final File[] files = dir.listFiles(filter); if (files != null) { for (int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) { if (files[i].isFile()) { res.add(files[i]); } else if (files[i].isDirectory()) { stack.push(files[i]); } } } result = res.toArray(new File[res.size()]); } return result; } }