String Object to Path?

[worldChanger]

Hey Guys,

I was wondering if its possible to convert a string object into a path?
Thing is I'm letting the user enter the location of a directory within a jtextfield.

I'm going to use getText() to get the user entered text. But then I want to change it to a path so that I can create a new directory in the location the user specified.

I tried reading up on : http://openjdk.java.net/projects/nio...ile/Paths.html
But it doesn't seem to work:

Am I implementing it wrong? :
Path requiredPath = Paths.get(jTextField.getSelectedText());

[worldChanger]

I wouldn't even mind changing it into a file object if there is that alternative?

[ProgramThis]

Of course you can change it into a File object and create the file/folder if it does not exist. I personally have never used Path objects, only File objects, so I don't know how they behave. Here is an example.

[worldChanger]

File sessionDir = new File ( LocationTextField.getSelectedText() , jTextField.getText());

where the LocationTextField.getSelectedText() is nothing but a string having the location like C:\Docs\Location

And jTextField.getText() is merely XYZ, the name of the directory.

... when I try to do that, it just ends up creating the directory in the same location as the project's workspace ... and not in the actual location specified by LocationTextField.

[jcaccia]

I might be wrong, but you are using LocationTextField.getSelectedText() instead of getText(). If there is nothing selected then it will be an empty string, right? So the file/path will be created in the current folder.

[worldChanger]

whoops sorry ... that was a typo. Thanks for spotting it!
It works now .. .thanks!

[sidsomashak]

If you want to change it to file object as an alternative I would suggest to refer link below with an explanation and example

Directory in java.

[Priya456]

Use a library like Guava or Commons / IO. They have oneliner methods.

Guava:

Files.toString(file, charset);
Commons / IO:

FileUtils.readFileToString(file, charset);
Without such a library, I'd write a helper method, something like this:

public String readFile(File file, Charset charset) throws IOException {
return new String(Files.readAllBytes(file.toPath()), charset);
}