For use with Java applications generated by SoftwareMining's COBOL-to-Java conversion tools.

Package com.softwaremining.platformutils

Class FileUtility

java.lang.Object

com.softwaremining.platformutils.FileUtility

public class FileUtility
extends Object

contains utility methods used internally by SoftwareMining framework

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
protected static Log	logger

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
FileUtility()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static boolean	deleteFile(String filePath)
static final String	dotsToSlashes(String packageName)	convers a package name to directory name delimited by forward slashes.
static void	forceDirectory(String serOutDir)
static final String	getDataDirectory()	Set-up the Input/Output directory for creation of sequential files.
static String	getFileExtension(String fileName)	return the file extension
static String	getResource(String fileName, String resourceLabel)
static final String	getResourceAbsolutePath(String resourceName)
static final InputStream	getResourceAsStream(String resourceName)	load the resoucesName using default contextClassLoader from current thread
static final String	getResourceAsString(String resourceName)	Load the resource Name using the supplied classLoader, if fail then use class loader from current thread
static final Properties	loadProperties(String propertyFileRelativePath)	load a property file from propertyFileRelativePath (in Classpath).
static boolean	renameFile(String oldName, String newName)	rename a file - overwrites if a file with new name exists

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Details

logger

protected static transient Log logger

Constructor Details

FileUtility

public FileUtility()

Method Details

dotsToSlashes

public static final String dotsToSlashes(String packageName)

convers a package name to directory name delimited by forward slashes. For example
com.softwaremining.util
will be translated to com/softwaremining/util

Parameters:

packageName -

Returns:

getResourceAsStream

public static final InputStream getResourceAsStream(String resourceName)

load the resoucesName using default contextClassLoader from current thread

Parameters:

resourceName -

Returns:

getResourceAbsolutePath

public static final String getResourceAbsolutePath(String resourceName)

loadProperties

public static final Properties loadProperties(String propertyFileRelativePath)

load a property file from propertyFileRelativePath (in Classpath). If properties is not found, it will not cause a problem, it will return an empty property file

Parameters:

resourceName -

Returns:

getResourceAsString

public static final String getResourceAsString(String resourceName)

Load the resource Name using the supplied classLoader, if fail then use class loader from current thread

Parameters:

resourceName -

classLoader -

Returns:

getDataDirectory

public static final String getDataDirectory()

Set-up the Input/Output directory for creation of sequential files. if running in a web-environment (WEB-INF somewhere in the path) The method needs "softwaremining.properties" file somewhere it its path.

Returns:

if WEB-INF is somewhere in the path then it absolute path for "WEB-INF/out" if WEB-INF is not anywhere in the path - then it returns "";

forceDirectory

public static void forceDirectory(String serOutDir)

renameFile

public static boolean renameFile(String oldName,
 String newName)

rename a file - overwrites if a file with new name exists

Parameters:

oldName -

newName -

Returns:

deleteFile

public static boolean deleteFile(String filePath)

getResource

public static String getResource(String fileName,
 String resourceLabel)

getFileExtension

public static String getFileExtension(String fileName)

return the file extension

Parameters:

fileName -

Returns: