CODEWITHSUNDEEP
java
Prasanna M
Prasanna M

Reputation: 53

How to get the absolute path location for this OutputStream?

byte bWrite [] = {11,21,3,40,5};
OutputStream os = new FileOutputStream("test.txt");
System.out.println("Created successfully"+os.getAbsolutePath());

This is my code.I have to get the location for "test.txt".please check it out if it is some other way to implement...?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 12922

Answers (4)

AtomClock
AtomClock

Reputation: 96

When I tried your code with FileOutputStream it didn't work at all. But I was successful with the following code.

OutputStream os = openFileOutput("test.txt", MODE_PRIVATE);
System.out.println("Created successfully" + getFilesDir().getAbsolutePath() + "/test.txt");

getFilesDir().getAbsolutePath() appears to get the absolute path to the default location for openFileOutput.

Upvotes: 0

dkatzel
dkatzel

Reputation: 31648

FileOUtputStream also has File constructor so you can use that.

File out = new File("test.txt");

OutputStream os = new FileOutputStream(out);
System.out.println("Created successfully "+out.getAbsolutePath());

Upvotes: 9

Jon Skeet
Jon Skeet

Reputation: 1499810

Getting this information after you've only got an OutputStream variable feels like the wrong approach to me. After all, there's no guarantee that an OutputStream is writing to a file at all - it could be a ByteArrayOutputStream or writing to a socket. You can get this information before you create the FileOutputStream though. For example:

File file = new File("test.txt");
System.out.println("Absolute path: " + file.getAbsolutePath());

Or

Path path = Paths.get("text.txt");
System.out.println("Absolute path: " + path.toAbsolutePath());

... then create the FileOutputStream based on that.

Upvotes: 5

Patrick Chan
Patrick Chan

Reputation: 1029

Why don't you just put your desired absolute path as the parameter of the constructor of FileOutputStream?

Upvotes: 0

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