Skipping links!!!

[jvh]

Hi everyone!!!

I'm developing an recursive algorithm to search for files. Everything works fine until my program gets into a link(I mean to Linux symbolic links) which is pointing toward a folder. This link is located in a sub-folder of the folder to which has been linked, so it's generating an endless loop. Well, how to solve this?

I have made this other times, but using c/c++. In those case I just simply tell to my algorithm:

"Skip the links and goes ahead."

...but how can I get the same using Java?

I was looking for something with the same behavior of isDirectory(), maybe something like isLink()... but I get my hands empty.

I hope somebody help me with a link, an example, a clue or whatever.

Thanks in advance... :rolleyes:

[r035198x]

You can use

Attributes.readBasicFileAttributes(file, LinkOption.NOFOLLOW_LINKS).isSymbolicLink();

where file is a java.nio.file.Path object.
Reading the API specs for those java.nio classes will make things clearer.

[jvh]

Hi

I've been all this time trying to get working the recursion of my algorithm using the help of "r035198x" but I receive several errors when I compile.

Well, the source of those errors was simply that "java.nio.file" is implemented in the JDK7(the next major release of the Java™ SE Platform) and the version that I've installed is the JDK6.

...so how can I get the same using the JDK6?

I believe there have to be some way to get it work. I can't imagine that all developers have to wait until the next version of JDK to do something like what I'm doing.

Thanks in advance.