DirectoryWalker

Class DirectoryWalker

public class DirectoryWalker extends Object

A class to walk through the directory structure from a given starting point and return either files or directories or both.

The following sample gets all java files.

 final FileFilter filter = new FileFilter() {
     public boolean accept( final File file ) {
         return file.getName().endsWith(".java");
     }
 };

 final DirectoryWalker directoryWalker = new DirectoryWalker(".");
 final Collection files = directoryWalker.getFiles(filter);

Version: $Revision: 1.5 $

Author: Mike Bowler

Field Summary
File	startingDirectory_

Field Summary

File

startingDirectory_

Constructor Summary
	DirectoryWalker(String startingDirectory) Create an instance

Constructor Summary

DirectoryWalker(String startingDirectory)

Create an instance

Method Summary
Collection	getDirectories(FileFilter filter) Walk through the directory structure and return a collection containing all those directories for which the filter returns true
Collection	getFiles(FileFilter filter) Walk through the directory structure and return a collection containing all those files for which the filter returns true
Collection	getFilesAndDirectories(FileFilter filter) Walk through the directory structure and return a collection containing all those files and directories for which the filter returns true
Collection	walk(FileFilter filter, boolean includeFiles, boolean includeDirectories)

Method Summary

Collection

getDirectories(FileFilter filter)

Walk through the directory structure and return a collection containing all those directories for which the filter returns true

Collection

getFiles(FileFilter filter)

Walk through the directory structure and return a collection containing all those files for which the filter returns true

Collection

getFilesAndDirectories(FileFilter filter)

Walk through the directory structure and return a collection containing all those files and directories for which the filter returns true

Collection

walk(FileFilter filter, boolean includeFiles, boolean includeDirectories)

Walk through the directory structure and return a collection containing all those directories for which the filter returns true

Parameters: filter An object to determine whether or not to include this directory in the returned collection

Returns: A collection of File objects

getFiles

Walk through the directory structure and return a collection containing all those files for which the filter returns true

Parameters: filter An object to determine whether or not to include this file in the returned collection

Returns: A collection of File objects

getFilesAndDirectories

Walk through the directory structure and return a collection containing all those files and directories for which the filter returns true

Parameters: filter An object to determine whether or not to include this file/directory in the returned collection

Returns: A collection of File objects