Java Delete Empty Directory deleteEmptyDirectoryRecursive(File directory)

Description

delete Empty Directory Recursive

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static boolean deleteEmptyDirectoryRecursive(File directory) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*/*  w  ww.  j  av  a  2 s . c o m*/
 * Created by Angel Leon (@gubatron), Alden Torres (aldenml)
 * Copyright (c) 2011, 2012, FrostWire(R). All rights reserved.
 *
 * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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 * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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 *
 * This program 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 General Public License for more details.
 *
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 * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 */

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

public class Main {
    public static boolean deleteEmptyDirectoryRecursive(File directory) {
        // make sure we only delete canonical children of the parent file we
        // wish to delete. I have a hunch this might be an issue on OSX and
        // Linux under certain circumstances.
        // If anyone can test whether this really happens (possibly related to
        // symlinks), I would much appreciate it.
        String canonicalParent;
        try {
            canonicalParent = directory.getCanonicalPath();
        } catch (IOException ioe) {
            return false;
        }

        if (!directory.isDirectory()) {
            return false;
        }

        boolean canDelete = true;

        File[] files = directory.listFiles();
        for (int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
            try {
                if (!files[i].getCanonicalPath().startsWith(canonicalParent))
                    continue;
            } catch (IOException ioe) {
                canDelete = false;
            }

            if (!deleteEmptyDirectoryRecursive(files[i])) {
                canDelete = false;
            }
        }

        return canDelete ? directory.delete() : false;
    }
}

Related

1. deleteEmptyChildren(java.io.File file)
2. deleteEmptyDir(File directory)
3. deleteEmptyDir(File file)
4. deleteEmptyDirectories(List dirs)
5. deleteEmptyDirectory(File fileOrDirectory)
6. deleteEmptyDirectoryRecursive(File directory)
7. deleteEmptyDirs(File dir)
8. deleteEmptyDirs(File dir)
9. deleteEmptyFiles(String p)