service.tut.pori.fileservice

Class FileHandler

java.lang.Object

service.tut.pori.fileservice.FileHandler

public class FileHandler
extends java.lang.Object

A simple helper class for saving and deleting a file, as well generating a random filename.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
FileHandler()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	delete(java.lang.String filePath)
java.lang.String	generateFilename(java.lang.String filename) helper method for generating a new file name based on the given original filename.
boolean	save(java.lang.String filePath, java.io.InputStream file) Saves the content of the input stream to the given path using the given filename

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

FileHandler

public FileHandler()

Method Detail

save

public boolean save(java.lang.String filePath,
                    java.io.InputStream file)

Saves the content of the input stream to the given path using the given filename

Parameters:

filePath - absolute file path of the file to be created

file - the inputstream containing the file, the stream will NOT be closed

Returns:

true on success

delete

public boolean delete(java.lang.String filePath)

Parameters:

filePath - the absolute file path of the file to be deleted

Returns:

true on success

generateFilename

public java.lang.String generateFilename(java.lang.String filename)

helper method for generating a new file name based on the given original filename. The file names should be highly unique, but they are random, and it is up to the caller to take appropriate measures for validating the uniqueness of the file names.

Parameters:

filename -

Returns:

randomly generated URI-safe (no URL encoding needed) file name