Exist or not exist file problem

[Ballister]

Hi there.

So, i have some text writeen on a textpane and now i want to save it as a document but my problem is how to know if the file is already saved or not on the disc.

If the file is already on it i just want to "update" it and if it's not i want to create the file and put the text there...

Can anyone give me some tips to solve this ?

[Fubarable]

Have you looked at the Java File class? What have you tried? How isn't it working?

[Ballister]

I have a method that is something like this...

File file=new File(path);
String path = f.getPath();

boolean exists = file.exists();
if (!exists) {
create and save the the file.
}else{
the file exists so i just need to save it.
}

This is not working but i don't know very well how to do it right because of the file and path variables... :confused:

[Fubarable]

Can you give us more information on what is specifically not working? Those methods work for me, and I can't tell based on what you've posted what you're doing wrong.

[Hibernate]

I don't understand your last line [“This is not working but i don't know very well how to do it right because of the file and path variables...”], but is any exception thrown, if not, what values does ‘exists’ get?

I'm not sure, but I think ‘f.getPath()’ returns the relative path you fed the constructor;
however, ‘f.getAbsolutePath()’ returns the absolute path and ‘f.getCanonicalPath()’ returns the absolute path a the file the path points to, so normally the file at your path, but if is a link in Unix-like OS:es it returns the absolute path of the file the link links to.

[Ballister]

I have text on a textpane. When i hit the save button i want to know if the file already exists on the disk because in that case i want to update that file and if that file does not exists in the disc i want to create it with the text which is inside the textpane.

What i post throws this exception -> Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NullPointerException

[Hibernate]

That exception should not have anything to do with saving.
Can you post the entire exception dump?