Java Examples to Create New Empty File and A Temporary File

1. Overview

In this tutorial, We'll be learning how to create a file in java and how to create a temp file in java.

Example programs demonstrated in the following methods.

createNewFile()
createTempFile()

Example Programs on Files

createNewFile() method is used to create a new empty file.
createTempFile() method is used to create a temporary file.

Java Examples To Work With Properties File (Read & Write)

1. Overview

In this tutorial, We'll be learning how to read from and write to the properties file in java.

Java API priovides a class Properties which is part of java.util package.

The Properties class stores the set of key, value pairs as properties. It internally stores all properties in a Stream. The Properties can be saved to a stream or loaded from a stream. Each key and its corresponding value in the property list stored as a string.

public class Properties
extends Hashtable<Object,​Object>

Properties inherit from Hashtable, the put and putAll methods can be applied to a Properties object. Their use is strongly discouraged as they allow the caller to insert entries whose keys or values are not Strings. The setProperty method should be used instead.

Java 8 Files walk() Examples

1. Overview

In this tutorial, We'll be learning the Files API walk() method in java 8. walk() method is part of the Files class and java.nio.file package.

This method is used to walk through any given directory and retrieves Stream<Path> as the return value. This method traverses through all its subdirectories as well.

API Description:

Return a Stream that is lazily populated with Path by walking the file tree rooted at a given starting file. The file tree is traversed depth-first, the elements in the stream are Path objects that are obtained as if by resolving the relative path against start.

Note: This method must be used within a try-with-resources statement.

In this article, We'll see its syntax and example programs on how to list all the files in the directory, list directories and specific file patterns such as .csv or file name contains 'Match' word.