Java 7 - How to delete a folder and its contents recursively

Java 7 New IO API - A program to Delete Directory including sub directories and files.

/**

 * Java program to delete folder.

 */

package com.hadoop.test;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.nio.file.FileVisitResult;

import java.nio.file.Files;

import java.nio.file.Paths;

import java.nio.file.SimpleFileVisitor;

import java.nio.file.attribute.BasicFileAttributes;

/**

 * @author Bala

 *

 */

public class FileUtil {

private static boolean deleteFolder(String location) throws IOException{

java.nio.file.Path path = Paths.get(location);

Files.walkFileTree(path, new SimpleFileVisitor<java.nio.file.Path>(){

@Override

public FileVisitResult postVisitDirectory(java.nio.file.Path dir,

IOException exc) throws IOException {

Files.delete(dir);

return FileVisitResult.CONTINUE;

}

@Override

public FileVisitResult visitFile(java.nio.file.Path file,

BasicFileAttributes attrs) throws IOException {

Files.delete(file);

return FileVisitResult.CONTINUE;

}

});

System.out.println("Deleted dir :" + location);

return true;

}

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception{

deleteFolder("/path/to/folder");

}

}