Java Delete File deleteFile(final String dirname)

Description

delete File

License

BSD License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
dirname	a parameter

Declaration

public static boolean deleteFile(final String dirname) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*--------------------------------------------------------
 * Copyright (c) 2011, The Dojo Foundation
 * This software is distributed under the "Simplified BSD license",
 * the text of which is available at http://www.winktoolkit.org/licence.txt
 * or see the "license.txt" file for more details.
 *--------------------------------------------------------*/

import java.io.File;

public class Main {
    /**//from   w w w  .  j  a  va  2 s  .  c o  m
     * @param dirname
     * @return
     */
    public static boolean deleteFile(final String dirname) {
        // System.out.println("deleteFile: " + dirname);
        final File f = new File(dirname);
        if (f.exists()) {
            return deleteR(f);
        }
        return false;
    }

    /**
     * @param path
     * @return
     */
    private static boolean deleteR(final File path) {
        if (path.exists()) {
            final File[] files = path.listFiles();
            for (int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
                if (files[i].isDirectory()) {
                    deleteR(files[i]);
                } else {
                    final boolean isFileDeleted = files[i].delete();
                    if (!isFileDeleted) {
                        return false;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        final boolean isDeleted = path.delete();
        return isDeleted;
    }

    /**
     * @param dirname
     * @return
     */
    public static boolean isDirectory(final String dirname) {
        // System.out.println("isDirectory: " + dirname);
        final File f = new File(dirname);
        if (f.exists() && f.isDirectory() && f.canWrite()) {
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }
}

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