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FileOutputStream, directory

this is my directory structure
Inside the server I have the following code for saving a file that gets sent from the client
fileName = reader.readLine();
DataInputStream dis = null;
try {
dis = new DataInputStream(csocket.getInputStream());
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(fileName);
buffer = new byte[4096];
int fileSize = 15123;
int read = 0;
int totalRead = 0;
int remaining = fileSize;
while((read = dis.read(buffer, 0, Math.min(buffer.length, remaining))) > 0) {
totalRead += read;
remaining -= read;
fos.write(buffer, 0, read);
}
fos.close();
dis.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
}
break;
I'm wondering how I would go about saving the file within the xml folder? I've tried using getClass().getResource and such but nothing seems to work.
fileName is just a simple string containing the name of the file, not a path or anything.
I get the correct path using this code:
File targetDir = new File(getClass().getResource("xml").getPath());
File targetFile = new File(targetDir, fileName);
targetFile.createNewFile();
System.out.println(targetFile.getAbsolutePath());
dis = new DataInputStream(csocket.getInputStream());
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(targetFile.getAbsolutePath(), false);
But it still won't save it there...

The best way is to receive explicitly the target path for storing files, either through a .properties file or a command-line argument. In this way, you make your program flexible to be installed and adapted in different environments.
But if you wish your program to assume the target directory automatically, the best option is to set a relative path before creating the FileOutputStream, as long as you start your program always from the same path:
File targetDir=new File("xml");
File targetFile=new File(targetDir, fileName);
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(targetFile);
This will work assuming the program is started from server as current directory.
Update
Other minor suggestions about your program:
Never base the exit condition of the loop on a hard-coded file size, because it is not possible to know it a priori. Instead, check explicitly if the value returned by read is less than 0 => that means End Of File reached.
Consequently, do not bother to calculate the exact amount of data to get through a call to read. Just enter the buffer size, because you are setting a maximum data size.
Never let exceptions catched without a proper treatment: If you know how to make your program recover, enter a proper code into the catch block. Otherwise, you'd better not catch them: Declare them in the throws clause and let them be propagated to the caller.
Always create stream resources through the try-with-resources instruction, to ensure they got closed at the end:
try (FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(...))
{
// ... use fos...
}
Save unnecessary instructions: If you don't care about if the file already exists on the filesystem or not, don't call createNewFile. But if you care, check the returned value and bifurcate consequently.

I try to create file and it does created but not at ProjectName\src\com\company\xml but in ProjectName\out\production\ProjectName\com\company\xml
my code:
File targetDir = new File(this.getClass().getResource("xml").getPath());
// get the parent of the file
String parentPath = targetDir.getParent( );
String fileName="xml/name.txt";
//do something
File targetFile = new File(parentPath, fileName);
targetFile.createNewFile();
Just pay attention that after compilation you will try to save it into a jar file and it a complicated thing to do.
usually you need to save file into file outside from your jar(separate in the root) like this:

How to make a copy of a file containing images and text using java

I have some word documents and excel sheets which has some images along with the file text content. I want to create a copy of that file and keep it at a specific location. I tried the following method which is creating file at specified location but the file is corrupted and cannot be read.
InputStream document = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("upgradeworkbench/Resources/Upgrade_TD_Template.docx");
try {
OutputStream outStream = null;
Stage stage = new Stage();
stage.setTitle("Save");
byte[] buffer= new byte[document.available()];
document.read(buffer);
FileChooser fileChooser = new FileChooser();
fileChooser.setInitialFileName(initialFileName);
if (flag) {
fileChooser.getExtensionFilters().addAll(new FileChooser.ExtensionFilter("Microsoft Excel Worksheet", "*.xls"));
} else {
fileChooser.getExtensionFilters().addAll(new FileChooser.ExtensionFilter("Microsoft Word Document", "*.docx"));
}
fileChooser.setTitle("Save File");
File file = fileChooser.showSaveDialog(stage);
if (file != null) {
outStream = new FileOutputStream(file);
outStream.write(buffer);
// IOUtils.copy(document, outStream);
}
} catch (IOException ex) {
System.out.println(ex.getMessage());
}
Can anyone suggest me any different ways to get the proper file.
PS: I am reading the file using InputStream because it is inside the project jar.
PPS: I also tried Files.copy() but it didnt work.

I suggest you never trust on InputStream.available to know the real size of the input, because it just returns the number of bytes ready to be immediately read from the buffer. It might return a small number, but doesn't mean the file is small, but that the buffer is temporarily half-full.
The right algorithm to read an InputStream fully and write it over an OutputStream is this:
int n;
byte[] buffer=new byte[4096];
do
{
n=input.read(buffer);
if (n>0)
{
output.write(buffer, 0, n);
}
}
while (n>=0);

You can use the Files.copy() methods.
Copies all bytes from an input stream to a file. On return, the input stream will be at end of stream.

Use:
Files.copy(document, file.toPath(), StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING);
As the class says, the second argument is a Path, not a File.
Generally, since this is 2015, use Path and drop File; if an API still uses File, make it so that it uses it at the last possible moment and use Path all the way.

How to download a file from the internet using Java

Hi I am trying to write some code in my program so I can grab a file from the internet but it seems that is not working. Can someone give me some advice please ? Here is my code. In this case I try to download an mp3 file from the last.fm website, my code runs perfectly fine but when I open my downloads directory the file is not there. Any idea ?
public class download {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
String fileName = "Death Grips - Get Got.mp3";
URL link = new URL("http://www.last.fm/music/+free-music-downloads");
InputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(link.openStream());
ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
byte[] buf = new byte[1024];
int n = 0;
while (-1!=(n=in.read(buf)))
{
out.write(buf, 0, n);
}
out.close();
in.close();
byte[] response = out.toByteArray();
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(fileName);
fos.write(response);
fos.close();
System.out.println("Finished");
}
}

Every executing program has a current working directory. Often times, it is the directory where the executable lives (if it was launched in a "normal" way).
Since you didn't specify a path (in fileName), the file will be saved with that name in the current working directory.
If you want the file to be saved in your downloads directory, specify the full path. E.g.
String fileName = "C:\\Users\\YOUR_USERNAME\\Downloads\\Death Grips - Get Got.mp3";
Note how I've escaped the backslashes. Also note that there are methods for joining paths in Java. There is a way to get the current working directory in Java.

Extract a .tar.gz file in java (JSP)

I can't seem to import the packages needed or find any online examples of how to extract a .tar.gz file in java.
What makes it worse is I'm using JSP pages and am having trouble importing packages into my project. I'm copying the .jar's into WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/ and then right clicking on the project and selecting import external jar and importing it. Sometimes the packages resolve, other times they don't. Can't seem to get GZIP to import either. The imports in eclipse for jsp aren't intuitive like they are in normal Java code where you can right click a recognized package and select import.
I've tried the Apache commons library, the ice and another one called JTar. Ice has imported, but I can't find any examples of how to use it?
I guess I need to uncompress the gzipped part first, then open it with the tarstream?
Any help is greatly appreciated.

The accepted answer works fine, but I think it is redundant to have a write to file operation.
You could use something like
TarArchiveInputStream tarInput =
new TarArchiveInputStream(new GZipInputStream(new FileInputStream("Your file name")));
TarArchiveEntry currentEntry = tarInput.getNextTarEntry();
while(currentEntry != null) {
File f = currentEntry.getFile();
// TODO write to file as usual
}
Hope this help.
Maven Repo

Ok, i finally figured this out, here is my code in case this helps anyone in the future.
Its written in Java, using the apache commons io and compress librarys.
File dir = new File("directory/of/.tar.gz/files/here");
File listDir[] = dir.listFiles();
if (listDir.length!=0){
for (File i:listDir){
/* Warning! this will try and extract all files in the directory
if other files exist, a for loop needs to go here to check that
the file (i) is an archive file before proceeding */
if (i.isDirectory()){
break;
}
String fileName = i.toString();
String tarFileName = fileName +".tar";
FileInputStream instream= new FileInputStream(fileName);
GZIPInputStream ginstream =new GZIPInputStream(instream);
FileOutputStream outstream = new FileOutputStream(tarFileName);
byte[] buf = new byte[1024];
int len;
while ((len = ginstream.read(buf)) > 0)
{
outstream.write(buf, 0, len);
}
ginstream.close();
outstream.close();
//There should now be tar files in the directory
//extract specific files from tar
TarArchiveInputStream myTarFile=new TarArchiveInputStream(new FileInputStream(tarFileName));
TarArchiveEntry entry = null;
int offset;
FileOutputStream outputFile=null;
//read every single entry in TAR file
while ((entry = myTarFile.getNextTarEntry()) != null) {
//the following two lines remove the .tar.gz extension for the folder name
String fileName = i.getName().substring(0, i.getName().lastIndexOf('.'));
fileName = fileName.substring(0, fileName.lastIndexOf('.'));
File outputDir = new File(i.getParent() + "/" + fileName + "/" + entry.getName());
if(! outputDir.getParentFile().exists()){
outputDir.getParentFile().mkdirs();
}
//if the entry in the tar is a directory, it needs to be created, only files can be extracted
if(entry.isDirectory){
outputDir.mkdirs();
}else{
byte[] content = new byte[(int) entry.getSize()];
offset=0;
myTarFile.read(content, offset, content.length - offset);
outputFile=new FileOutputStream(outputDir);
IOUtils.write(content,outputFile);
outputFile.close();
}
}
//close and delete the tar files, leaving the original .tar.gz and the extracted folders
myTarFile.close();
File tarFile = new File(tarFileName);
tarFile.delete();
}
}

Android unzip not a directory issue

I am trying to unzip a zip file which is stored in the raw folder. Code is as follows
try
{
File myDir = new File(getFilesDir().getAbsolutePath());
File newFile = new File(myDir + "/imageFolder");
if(!newFile.exists())
{
newFile.mkdir();
}
ZipInputStream zipIs = new ZipInputStream(con
.getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.images));
ZipEntry ze = null;
while ((ze = zipIs.getNextEntry()) != null)
{
Log.v("Name", ze.getName());
Log.v("Size", "" + ze.getSize());
if(ze.getSize() >0)
{
FileOutputStream fout = new FileOutputStream(newFile
+ "/" + ze.getName());
byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
int length = 0;
while ((length = zipIs.read(buffer)) > 0)
{
fout.write(buffer, 0, length);
}
zipIs.closeEntry();
fout.close();
}
}
zipIs.close();
} catch (Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
But I keep getting this error
01-18 11:24:28.301: W/System.err(2285): java.io.FileNotFoundException:
/data/data/com.example.ziptests/files/imageFolder/TestImages/background.png
(Not a directory)
I have absolutely no idea why it is causing this, it finds the files, but when it comes to writing them out, it brings up that error. Originally I found a problem that was caused by having the zip file zipped up on the mac, so I zipped up the file on my windows machine instead, that got rid of one problem (when you zip on a mac, it adds these extra folders and files such s store.ds which causes an error when trying to unzip), but this not a directory error keeps coming up.
Any ideas why this is happening?

Please try below link code for unzip zip file.
Code for Extract Zip File
Unzip Zip File
The Problem is I am Uploading zip File which is not made using winrar software, so it is not proper extracted and give me error.
It will solve your problem.

You can't write files to the raw folder. It is a read only dir intended to contain resource files included in your apk.
UPDATE
That file would be better in the assets directory. You can access it through the AssetManager. If not, leave it in the res/raw dir, but access it through Resources.openRawResource. Either way they are Read-Only.