Create folder if it does not exist in the Google Drive

Question

My Application works with Google Drive Java API.

I want to create folder in the root of the Google Drive only if it does not exist. I am using below code to creat folder.

  file = service.files().insert(body).execute();

How do i check the folder existance in the root folder. I have only the folder name 'Myapp', not the instance ID.

Answer 1

Files.List request = service.files().list().setQ(
       "mimeType='application/vnd.google-apps.folder' and trashed=false");
FileList files = request.execute();

You could now go through all folders in "files" and check if any of the folders have the searched title.

Don't forget to loop through all pages with:

request.setPageToken(files.getNextPageToken());

Edit:

Maybe you could have a look at this site. You can add the title in your search criteria instead so you do not have to retrieve all the folders.