From: Svjatoslav Agejenko <svjatoslav@svjatoslav.eu>
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 21:18:14 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: possibility to recursively delete directories
X-Git-Tag: svjatoslavcommons-1.8~125
X-Git-Url: http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitweb/?p=svjatoslav_commons.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=30d5a74b04947e845e4b8f4ae3220452d5b1de2c

possibility to recursively delete directories
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diff --git a/src/main/java/eu/svjatoslav/commons/file/IOHelper.java b/src/main/java/eu/svjatoslav/commons/file/IOHelper.java
index a6dd05f..5b4e634 100644
--- a/src/main/java/eu/svjatoslav/commons/file/IOHelper.java
+++ b/src/main/java/eu/svjatoslav/commons/file/IOHelper.java
@@ -17,6 +17,28 @@ import java.io.IOException;
 
 public class IOHelper {
 
+	/**
+	 * Deletes files and directories recursively. WARNING!!! Follows symlinks!!!
+	 */
+	public static void deleteRecursively(final File file) throws IOException {
+		if (file.isDirectory()) {
+
+			for (final File subFile : file.listFiles())
+				deleteRecursively(subFile);
+
+			if (!file.delete())
+				throw new FileNotFoundException("Failed to delete directory: "
+						+ file);
+
+			return;
+		}
+
+		if (file.isFile())
+			if (!file.delete())
+				throw new FileNotFoundException("Failed to delete file: "
+						+ file);
+	}
+
 	public static byte[] getFileContents(final File file)
 			throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {