Java File List Load getFileList(String filePath, FileFilter fileFilter, boolean recursive)

Description

Gets a ArrayList of File objects provided a dir or file path.

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
filePath	Absolute path to file or directory
fileFilter	Filter dir content by extention; allows "null"
recursive	Recursively search for files

Return

ArrayList of File objects matching specified criteria.

Declaration

public static ArrayList<File> getFileList(String filePath, FileFilter fileFilter, boolean recursive) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*// w w w  .  j  a  va  2 s  .c  o m
 * Copyright (c) 2008  Los Alamos National Security, LLC.
 *
 * Los Alamos National Laboratory
 * Research Library
 * Digital Library Research & Prototyping Team
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 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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 */

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileFilter;

import java.util.ArrayList;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Gets a ArrayList of File objects provided a dir or file path.
     * @param filePath
     *        Absolute path to file or directory
     * @param fileFilter
     *        Filter dir content by extention; allows "null"
     * @param recursive
     *        Recursively search for files
     * @return
     *        ArrayList of File objects matching specified criteria.
     */
    public static ArrayList<File> getFileList(String filePath, FileFilter fileFilter, boolean recursive) {
        ArrayList<File> files = new ArrayList<File>();
        File file = new File(filePath);
        if (file.exists() && file.isDirectory()) {
            File[] fa = file.listFiles(fileFilter);
            for (int i = 0; i < fa.length; i++) {
                if (fa[i].isFile())
                    files.add(fa[i]);
                else if (recursive && fa[i].isDirectory())
                    files.addAll(getFileList(fa[i].getAbsolutePath(), fileFilter, recursive));
            }
        } else if (file.exists() && file.isFile()) {
            files.add(file);
        }

        return files;
    }
}

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4. getFileList(String directory, String filterRegexp)
5. getFileList(String directoryPath)
6. getFileList(String folderPath)
7. getFileList(String inputFilename)
8. getFileList(String path)
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