Java Recursive Delete recursiveDeleteHelper(File parent, List failed)

Description

recursive Delete Helper

License

Open Source License

Declaration

private static void recursiveDeleteHelper(File parent, List<File> failed) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*/*  w w w.j  ava 2 s  . c  o m*/
 * $Id$
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2008 by Joel Uckelman
 *
 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
 * License (LGPL) as published by the Free Software Foundation.
 *
 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 * Library General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
 * License along with this library; if not, copies are available
 * at http://www.opensource.org.
 */

import java.io.File;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.util.List;

public class Main {
    private static void recursiveDeleteHelper(File parent, List<File> failed) {
        // delete children, depth first
        if (parent.isDirectory()) {
            for (File child : parent.listFiles()) {
                recursiveDeleteHelper(child, failed);
            }
        }

        // store leaves which can't be deleted in the failed list
        if (!parent.delete())
            failed.add(parent);
    }

    /**
     * Deletes a file.
     *
     * @param file the file to delete
     * @throws IOException if the file cannot be deleted
     */
    public static void delete(File file) throws IOException {
        if (!file.delete())
            throw new IOException("Failed to delete " + file.getAbsolutePath());
    }
}

Related

1. recursiveDelete(String p_path, boolean p_deletemetoo)
2. recursiveDelete(String path)
3. recursiveDeleteFile(File f)
4. recursiveDeleteFile(File file)
5. recursiveDeleteFile(File file)
6. recursiveDeleteNoCheck(File f)
7. recursiveDeleteNoCheck(File f)
8. recursiveDeleteOnExit(File parent)
9. recursiveDeleteOnExit(File rootDir)