Re: Move files in synchronous way

From:
"Matt Humphrey" <matth@iviz.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 9 Jun 2009 08:49:28 -0400
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"Alessandro" <ale.mito@tiscali.it> wrote in message
news:7adc745f-789e-4c37-9503-acd28d581f84@x3g2000yqa.googlegroups.com...

Hi all,

I need to move some files (size often more than 1GB) into another
folder and only at the end of the move (in synchronous way) do other
actions.

I have problems to do in synchronous way, with following code it's
asynchronous:

//START CODE
{
   moveFiles(startFold, targetFold);

   //do other actions

}

public static void moveFiles(File sourceDir,File targetDir){
 File[] fileList = sourceDir.listFiles();
 for(File sourceFile : fileList)
 sourceFile.renameTo(new File(targetDir,sourceFile.getName()));
 }
//END CODE


Umm--is this some use of the word "asynchronous" with which I'm unfamiliar?
I have not seen any docs that would suggest the rename would be successful,
but performed asynchronously at a later time. The only issue I see here is
not checking the return value to see if it was successful.

Matt Humphrey http://www.iviz.com/

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