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Problem Validate an URL with Apache common URLValidator to validate an URL, but it hits following error message ? java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/oro/text/perl/Perl5Util at org.apache.commons.validator.UrlValidator.isValid(UrlValidator.java:242) … Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.oro.text.perl.Perl5Util at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1516) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1361) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320) … 28 more Solution The URLValidator class is required Jakarta-ORO library, make sure you include the oro-xxx.jar into your project class […]

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This article shows a few ways to convert an java.io.InputStream to a String. Table of contents 1. ByteArrayOutputStream 2. InputStream#readAllBytes (Java 9) 3. InputStreamReader + StringBuilder 4. InputStreamReader + BufferedReader (modified line breaks) 5. Java 8 BufferedReader#lines (modified line breaks) 6. Apache Commons IO 7. Download Source Code 8. References What are modified line breaks? […]

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In Java, we can use ByteArrayInputStream to convert a String to an InputStream. String str = "mkyong.com"; InputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(str.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)); Table of contents 1. ByteArrayInputStream 2. Apache Commons IO – IOUtils 3. Download Source Code 4. References 1. ByteArrayInputStream This example uses ByteArrayInputStream to convert a String to an InputStream and saves it […]

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A Java program to demonstrate the use of java.io.File setReadOnly() method to make a file read only. Since JDK 1.6, a new setWritable() method is provided to make a file to be writable again. Example package com.mkyong; import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; public class FileReadAttribute { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { File file […]

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A Java program to demonstrate the use of java.io.File isHidden() to check if a file is hidden. package com.mkyong; import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; public class FileHidden { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { File file = new File("c:/hidden-file.txt"); if(file.isHidden()){ System.out.println("This file is hidden"); }else{ System.out.println("This file is not hidden"); } } } Note […]

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In this tutorial, it shows the use of java.lang.Comparable and java.util.Comparator to sort a Java object based on its property value. 1. Sort an Array To sort an Array, use the Arrays.sort(). String[] fruits = new String[] {"Pineapple","Apple", "Orange", "Banana"}; Arrays.sort(fruits); int i=0; for(String temp: fruits){ System.out.println("fruits " + ++i + " : " + […]

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Java example to show the use of Arrays.sort() to sort an Array. The code should be self-explanatory. import java.util.Arrays; import java.util.Collections; public class ArraySorting{ public static void main(String args[]){ String[] unsortStringArray = new String[] {"c", "b", "a", "3", "2", "1"}; int[] unsortIntArray = new int[] {7,5,4,6,1,2,3}; System.out.println("Before sort"); System.out.println("— unsortStringArray —"); for(String temp: unsortStringArray){ System.out.println(temp); […]

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By default, the ArrayList’s elements are display according to the sequence it is put inside. Often times, you may need to sort the ArrayList to make it alphabetically order. In this example, it shows the use of Collections.sort(‘List’) to sort an ArrayList. import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.Collections; import java.util.List; public class SortArrayList{ public static void main(String […]

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Few Java examples to sort a Map by its keys or values. Note If you are using Java 8, refer to this article – How to use Stream APIs to sort a Map 1. Sort by Key 1.1 Uses java.util.TreeMap, it will sort the Map by keys automatically. SortByKeyExample1.java package com.mkyong.test; import java.util.HashMap; import java.util.Map; […]

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Here’s a few ways to initialize an java.util.ArrayList, see the following full example: InitArrayList.java package com.mkyong.examples; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.Arrays; import java.util.List; public class InitArrayList { public static void main(String[] args) { //1. Normal way List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>(); list.add("String A"); list.add("String B"); list.add("String C"); System.out.println("List 1……"); for (String temp : list) { System.out.println(temp); […]

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Here’s an example to check if a directory is empty. Example package com.mkyong.file; import java.io.File; public class CheckEmptyDirectoryExample { public static void main(String[] args) { File file = new File("C:\\folder"); if(file.isDirectory()){ if(file.list().length>0){ System.out.println("Directory is not empty!"); }else{ System.out.println("Directory is empty!"); } }else{ System.out.println("This is not a directory"); } } }

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In Java, we can use the NIO Files.createDirectory to create a directory or Files.createDirectories to create a directory including all nonexistent parent directories. try { Path path = Paths.get("/home/mkyong/a/b/c/"); //java.nio.file.Files; Files.createDirectories(path); System.out.println("Directory is created!"); } catch (IOException e) { System.err.println("Failed to create directory!" + e.getMessage()); } 1. Create Directory – Java NIO 1.1 We can […]

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In Java, we can use the following two Files.createTempFile() methods to create a temporary file in the default temporary-file directory. Path createTempFile(Path dir, String prefix, String suffix, FileAttribute<?>… attrs) throws IOException Path createTempFile(String prefix, String suffix, FileAttribute<?>… attrs) throws IOException The default temporary file folder is vary on operating system. Windows – %USER%\AppData\Local\Temp Linux – […]

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In Java, we can use the NIO Files.setLastModifiedTime(path, FileTime) to update the last modified date or time of a file. Path path = Paths.get("/path/file"); LocalDate newLocalDate = LocalDate.of(1997, 12, 31); // year, month, dayOfMonth, hour, minute, second LocalDateTime newLocalDateTime = LocalDateTime.of(1999, 9, 30, 10, 30, 22); // convert LocalDateTime to Instant Instant instant = newLocalDateTime.toInstant(ZoneOffset.UTC); […]

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In Java (@since 1.7), we can use the NIO Files.readAttributes to get all the file metadata, including the file creation date. Path file = Paths.get(fileName); BasicFileAttributes attr = Files.readAttributes(file, BasicFileAttributes.class); System.out.println("creationTime: " + attr.creationTime()); // creationTime: 2020-07-20T09:29:54.627222Z 1. Files.readAttributes (NIO) This example uses Files.readAttributes to print the file creation date. GetCreationDate1.java package com.mkyong.io.howto; import java.io.IOException; […]

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In Java, we can use the NIO Files.delete(Path) and Files.deleteIfExists(Path) to delete a file. 1. Delete a file with Java NIO 1.1 The Files.delete(Path) deletes a file, returns nothing, or throws an exception if it fails. DeleteFile1.java package com.mkyong.io.file; import java.io.IOException; import java.nio.file.Files; import java.nio.file.Paths; public class DeleteFile1 { public static void main(String[] args) { […]

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In Java, we can use the NIO Files.move(source, target) to rename or move a file. import java.io.IOException; import java.nio.file.Files; import java.nio.file.Path; import java.nio.file.Paths; //… Path source = Paths.get("/home/mkyong/newfolder/test1.txt"); Path target = Paths.get("/home/mkyong/newfolder/test2.txt"); try{ Files.move(source, target); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } 1. Rename a file in the same directory. 1.1 This example renames a […]

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In Java, we can use BufferedWriter to write content into a file. // jdk 7 try (FileWriter writer = new FileWriter("app.log"); BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(writer)) { bw.write(content); } catch (IOException e) { System.err.format("IOException: %s%n", e); } Note If possible, uses Files.write instead, one line, simple and nice. List<String> list = Arrays.asList("Line 1", "Line 2"); […]

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The temporary file is just a regular file created on a predefined directory. In Java, we can use the NIO Files.write() to write data to a temporary file. // create a temporary file Path tempFile = Files.createTempFile(null, null); // Writes a string to the above temporary file Files.write(tempFile, "Hello World\n".getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)); // Append List<String> content = […]

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In this tutorial, we will show you three Java examples to construct a file path : File.separator or System.getProperty(“file.separator”) (Recommended) File file = new File(workingDir, filename); (Recommended) Create the file separator manually. (Not recommend, just for fun) 1. File.separator Classic Java example to construct a file path, using File.separator or System.getProperty(“file.separator”). Both will check the […]

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In Java, we can use Files.size(path) to get the size of a file in bytes. // size in bytes long bytes = Files.size(path); 1. Files.size (NIO) This example uses NIO Files.size(path) to print the size of an image file (140 kb). GetFileSize.java package com.mkyong.io.howto; import java.io.IOException; import java.nio.file.Files; import java.nio.file.Path; import java.nio.file.Paths; public class GetFileSize […]

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In Java, we can use System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir") to get the default temporary file location. For Windows, the default temporary folder is %USER%\AppData\Local\Temp For Linux, the default temporary folder is /tmp 1. java.io.tmpdir Run the below Java program on a Ubuntu Linux. TempFilePath1 package com.mkyong.io.temp; public class TempFilePath1 { public static void main(String[] args) { String tmpdir […]

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In Java, FileOutputStream is a bytes stream class that’s used to handle raw binary data. To write the data to file, you have to convert the data into bytes and save it to file. See below full example. package com.mkyong.io; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; public class WriteFileExample { public static void main(String[] args) […]

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In Java, there are many ways to create and write to a file. Files.newBufferedWriter (Java 8) Files.write (Java 7) PrintWriter File.createNewFile Note I prefer the Java 7 nio Files.write to create and write to a file, because it has much cleaner code and auto close the opened resources. Files.write( Paths.get(fileName), data.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)); 1. Java 8 Files.newBufferedWriter […]

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