groovy

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.1-beta-2
• Fix Version/s: 1.6-rc-1, 1.5.8, 1.7-beta-1
• Component/s: groovy-jdk
• Labels:

  None
• Environment:

  all

Deleting a directory including all subdirectories is a very tedious task. A method in File like "deleteRecursively()" would really help.

I am currently using already qutie nice code like this:

def dataDir = new File( ... path ...)

def dirs = []

dataDir.eachFileRecurse {
if (!it.isDirectory()) log.info("Deleting ${it.name}: ${it.delete()}")
else dirs << it
}

dirs.reverse().each { log.info("Deleting directory: ${it.name}: ${it.delete()}") }

But why could it not be new File ( ... dir ...).deleteDir() or similar?

1. 

   DefaultGroovyMethods-File.deleteDir.txt

   22/Mar/08 8:50 AM

   2 kB

   Joachim Heldmann

2. 

   DirectoryDeleteTest.groovy

   22/Mar/08 8:45 AM

   1 kB

   Joachim Heldmann

• Assignee:

  Guillaume Laforge

  Reporter:

  Sven Haiges

• Created:

  19/Dec/06 2:05 AM

  Updated:

  21/Nov/08 2:55 PM

  Resolved:

  21/Nov/08 5:59 AM