Making sure a directory with given path exists in Java

You can use the following utility function which accepts a path and make sure that path exists in file system

	public static void ensureDirectory(String dirPath) {
		if (dirPath != null && !dirPath.isEmpty()) {
			File dir = new File(dirPath);
			if (!dir.exists()) {
				Path newDirPath = Paths.get(dirPath);
				if (!Files.exists(newDirPath)) {
					try {
						Files.createDirectories(newDirPath);
					} catch (IOException e) {
						throw new RuntimeException("Exception while creating directory: " + dirPath, e);
					}
				}
			}
		}
	}

Following is a sample program which tests the above function

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;

public class Test {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		ensureDirectory("/foo/bar"); // Make sure you have proper access to the give path
	}

	public static void ensureDirectory(String dirPath) {
		if (dirPath != null && !dirPath.isEmpty()) {
			File dir = new File(dirPath);
			if (!dir.exists()) {
				Path newDirPath = Paths.get(dirPath);
				if (!Files.exists(newDirPath)) {
					try {
						Files.createDirectories(newDirPath);
					} catch (IOException e) {
						throw new RuntimeException("Exception while creating directory: " + dirPath, e);
					}
				}
			}
		}
	}
}

If you have proper permissions to the given path, the utility method will create the directory structure for you of not exists. If you do not have proper permissions, you may get following exception

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: Exception while creating directory: /foo/bar
	at com.Test.ensureDirectory(Test.java:24)
	at com.Test.main(Test.java:12)
Caused by: java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /foo
	at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:84)
	at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:102)
	at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:107)
	at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.createDirectory(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:384)
	at java.nio.file.Files.createDirectory(Files.java:674)
	at java.nio.file.Files.createAndCheckIsDirectory(Files.java:781)
	at java.nio.file.Files.createDirectories(Files.java:767)
	at com.Test.ensureDirectory(Test.java:22)
	... 1 more