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Android Android Data Persistence File Storage Writing to Internal Storage

Eston Burciaga
Eston Burciaga
1,729 Points
Posted by Eston Burciaga
Eston Burciaga
1,729 Points

Mememaker: What is the method that checks if a file already exisits?

I am doing a task for the MemeMaker module and am having a problem trying to solve the task that ask you to fix the code so that it only opens a file if the file doesn't already exist.

I looked at the Oracle's Java documentation for the File class and I found the "createNewFile" method placed on to the end of the "new File(string, string) call and it gave me an error something like the createNewFile symbol can't be found.

I'm confused... why can't the createNewFile method be found if it exists in the File class?

FileUtilities.java 
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;

public class FileUtilities {

  public static boolean copyResult;

  public static void saveAssetImage(Context context, String assetName) {
    File fileToWrite = new File(context.getFilesDir(), assetName);
    AssetManager assetManager = context.getAssets();

    try {
      InputStream in = assetManager.open(assetName);
      FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(fileToWrite).createNewFile;
      copyResult = copyFile(in, out);
    } catch(FileNotFoundException e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }

  private static boolean copyFile(InputStream in, FileOutputStream out) {
    // Copy magic intentionally omitted
           byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
        int read;
        while ((read = in.read(buffer)) != 1) {
            out.write(buffer, 0, read);
        }

    return true;
  }
}

3 Answers

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

HI,

Yes, the challenge is looking for:

      if(!fileToWrite.exists()){
          copyResult = copyFile(in, out);
      }

The if statement is added round the line that triggers the copy method.

Steve.

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points
Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

You could try adding something like 

if (!file.exists()){
    // do something to create a file
  } else {
// it does exist
}
Eston Burciaga
Eston Burciaga
1,729 Points
Eston Burciaga
Eston Burciaga
1,729 Points

Thanks for your help , guys. It looks like it will fix my problem. I will give it a try.