[SOLVED] Access Denied error using FileInputStream

[xcallmejudasx]

I have some music stored on an external harddrive that I want to play around with using a java program(right now just displaying the files) and I keep getting a FileNotFoundException saying access is denied to file(e:\Music). However file returns true when I call exists() and canRead(). Anybody know how to fix this?

public class SortMusic {
	static File file = new File("E:\\Music");
	static FileInputStream fis = null;
	static ObjectInputStream ois = null;
	
	public static void main(String args[]){
		init();
		listArtists();
	}
	public static void init(){
		//Directory = E:\Music
		System.out.println(file.canRead());
		System.out.println(file.exists());
		try {
			fis = new FileInputStream(file);
		} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
			System.out.println("File not found");
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		try {
			ois = new ObjectInputStream(fis);
		} catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		} catch (NullPointerException e){
			System.out.println("input stream is null");
		}
	}
	public static void listArtists(){
		File currFile = null;
		ArrayList<File> artists = new ArrayList<File>();
		try {
			while((currFile = (File)ois.readObject()) != null){
				artists.add(currFile);
			}
		} catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		for (int i = 1; i <= artists.size(); i++) {
			System.out.println(artists.get(i));
		}		
	}
}

[OrangeDog]

It's not a directory is it?

[Eranga]

This can be due to two reason. Either you are locating an ordinary file, not a directory or the directory attributes should be read only.

Seems to me, the first reason cannot be valid according to your application. So check the second first of all.

[Eranga]

Easily you can do the following.

	public static void main(String args[]){
        File file = new File("H:\\Fun\\Songs\\Micheal Loreance To Rock");
		File[] myMusicFiles = file.listFiles();

        for(int index = 0; index < myMusicFiles.length; index++) {
            if(myMusicFiles[index].isFile()) {
                System.out.println("File: " + myMusicFiles[index]);
            }
        }
	}

Once you have to file list, simply you can open to read one-by-one.

[Eranga]

First, if there is a security manager, its checkRead method is called with the path represented by the file argument as its argument

That's what Java Doc says about the file security. Just a part of it. ;)

[Singing Boyo]

while((currFile = (File)ois.readObject()) != null){

Looks to me like you are trying to read a file as a file... not likely to work, since you would have had to write a file into a file in the first place, which would just be... odd. especially since File is just an abstract pathname. You probably want to use File.listFiles() to get the array of files, then print File.getName(). Mind you, files are not my area of expertise, but I'm pretty sure E:\Music would be a directory.

[RamyaSivakanth]

Hi,
For FileInputStream/FileoutputStream u can't pass the directory.Please go thru the Java doc for constructor details.

FileInputStream
public FileInputStream(File file)
throws FileNotFoundExceptionCreates a FileInputStream by opening a connection to an actual file, the file named by the File object file in the file system. A new FileDescriptor object is created to represent this file connection.
First, if there is a security manager, its checkRead method is called with the path represented by the file argument as its argument.

If the named file does not exist, is a directory rather than a regular file, or for some other reason cannot be opened for reading then a FileNotFoundException is thrown.


FileOutputStream
public FileOutputStream(File file)
throws FileNotFoundExceptionCreates a file output stream to write to the file represented by the specified File object. A new FileDescriptor object is created to represent this file connection.
First, if there is a security manager, its checkWrite method is called with the path represented by the file argument as its argument.

If the file exists but is a directory rather than a regular file, does not exist but cannot be created, or cannot be opened for any other reason then a FileNotFoundException is thrown.


Parameters:
file - the file to be opened for writing.
Throws:
FileNotFoundException - if the file exists but is a directory rather than a regular file, does not exist but cannot be created, or cannot be opened for any other reason
SecurityException - if a security manager exists and its checkWrite method denies write access to the file.
See Also:
File.getPath(), SecurityException, SecurityManager.checkWrite(java.lang.String)

[xcallmejudasx]

I can't believe it didn't occur to me that my music folder wasn't in fact a file(girlfriends in the emergency room so I've been distracted).

@Eranga: Thank you that snippet was exactly what I needed
@Singing Boyo: It was a looooong day, as you can tell my brain wasn't fully functioning lol.

I'm curious why Danzig throws a NPE yet the code continues to run(maybe I should look at my code before posting but hey it's still early)

Directory: Flogging Molly
Directory: Drowning Pool
Directory: Adema
Directory: DanzigException in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
	at pack.SortMusic.listArtists(SortMusic.java:56)
	at pack.SortMusic.main(SortMusic.java:18)

Directory: Pantera
Directory: Stone Temple Pilots
Directory: 30 Seconds To Mars

...and like I said I forgot to comment out a method call. Carry on everyone, thanks for the help.

[Eranga]

It's pleasure to help you lol. And thanks for the marking the thread as solved too.