[java] How to check if a folder exists

I am playing a bit with the new Java 7 IO features, actually I trying to receive all the xml files of a folder. But this throws an exception when the folder does not exist, how can I check if the folder exists with the new IO?

public UpdateHandler(String release) {
    log.info("searching for configuration files in folder " + release);
    Path releaseFolder = Paths.get(release);
    try(DirectoryStream<Path> stream = Files.newDirectoryStream(releaseFolder, "*.xml")){

        for (Path entry: stream){
            log.info("working on file " + entry.getFileName());
        }
    }
    catch (IOException e){
        log.error("error while retrieving update configuration files " + e.getMessage());
    }


}

Generate a file from the string of your folder directory

String path="Folder directory";    
File file = new File(path);

and use method exist.
If you want to generate the folder you sould use mkdir()

if (!file.exists()) {
            System.out.print("No Folder");
            file.mkdir();
            System.out.print("Folder created");
        }

To check if a directory exists with the new IO:

if (Files.isDirectory(Paths.get("directory"))) {
  ...
}

isDirectory returns true if the file is a directory; false if the file does not exist, is not a directory, or it cannot be determined if the file is a directory or not.

See: documentation.

You need to transform your Path into a File and test for existence:

for(Path entry: stream){
  if(entry.toFile().exists()){
    log.info("working on file " + entry.getFileName());
  }
}

There is no need to separately call the exists() method, as isDirectory() implicitly checks whether the directory exists or not.

import java.io.File;
import java.nio.file.Paths;

public class Test
{

  public static void main(String[] args)
  {

    File file = new File("C:\\Temp");
    System.out.println("File Folder Exist" + isFileDirectoryExists(file));
    System.out.println("Directory Exists" + isDirectoryExists("C:\\Temp"));

  }

  public static boolean isFileDirectoryExists(File file)

  {
    if (file.exists())
    {
      return true;
    }
    return false;
  }

  public static boolean isDirectoryExists(String directoryPath)

  {
    if (!Paths.get(directoryPath).toFile().isDirectory())
    {
      return false;
    }
    return true;
  }

}

From SonarLint, if you already have the path, use path.toFile().exists() instead of Files.exists for better performance.

The Files.exists method has noticeably poor performance in JDK 8, and can slow an application significantly when used to check files that don't actually exist.

The same goes for Files.notExists, Files.isDirectory and Files.isRegularFile.

Noncompliant Code Example:

Path myPath;
if(java.nio.Files.exists(myPath)) {  // Noncompliant
    // do something
}

Compliant Solution:

Path myPath;
if(myPath.toFile().exists())) {
    // do something
}

Quite simple:

new File("/Path/To/File/or/Directory").exists();

And if you want to be certain it is a directory:

File f = new File("/Path/To/File/or/Directory");
if (f.exists() && f.isDirectory()) {
   ...
}

We can check files and thire Folders.

import java.io.*;
public class fileCheck
{
    public static void main(String arg[])
    {
        File f = new File("C:/AMD");
        if (f.exists() && f.isDirectory()) {
        System.out.println("Exists");
        //if the file is present then it will show the msg  
        }
        else{
        System.out.println("NOT Exists");
        //if the file is Not present then it will show the msg      
        }
    }
}

File sourceLoc=new File("/a/b/c/folderName");
boolean isFolderExisted=false;
sourceLoc.exists()==true?sourceLoc.isDirectory()==true?isFolderExisted=true:isFolderExisted=false:isFolderExisted=false;