Field Detail

• NORMAL

  public static final FileDeleteStrategy NORMAL

  The singleton instance for normal file deletion, which does not permit the deletion of directories that are not empty.

Constructor Detail

• FileDeleteStrategy

  protected FileDeleteStrategy(java.lang.String name)

  Restricted constructor.

  Parameters:

  name - the name by which the strategy is known

Method Detail

• deleteQuietly

  public boolean deleteQuietly(java.io.File fileToDelete)

  Deletes the file object, which may be a file or a directory. All IOExceptions are caught and false returned instead. If the file does not exist or is null, true is returned.

  Subclass writers should override doDelete(File), not this method.

  Parameters:

  fileToDelete - the file to delete, null returns true

  Returns:

  true if the file was deleted, or there was no such file

• doDelete

  protected boolean doDelete(java.io.File fileToDelete)
                      throws java.io.IOException

  Actually deletes the file object, which may be a file or a directory.

  This method is designed for subclasses to override. The implementation may return either false or an IOException when deletion fails. The deleteQuietly(File) method will handle either response appropriately. A check has been made to ensure that the file will exist.

  This implementation uses File.delete().

  Parameters:

  fileToDelete - the file to delete, exists, not null

  Returns:

  true if the file was deleteds

  Throws:

  java.lang.NullPointerException - if the file is null

  java.io.IOException - if an error occurs during file deletion

• toString

  public java.lang.String toString()

  Gets a string describing the delete strategy.

  Overrides:

  toString in class java.lang.Object

  Returns:

  a string describing the delete strategy