FileNotFoundException (Is a Directory) [duplicate]

Question

I am currently trying to upload multiple files, and the files are being upload properly into the destination directory. But in the logs it is giving me this error:

java.io.FileNotFoundException: /home/sandeep/java_proj/jee_tut/files (Is a directory)

at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:221)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:171)
at com.jee.controller.FileProcessing.uploadFiles(FileProcessing.java:35)
at com.jee.controller.View.doPost(View.java:48)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:646)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:727)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:303)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)
at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:241)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:220)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:122)
at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:501)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:171)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:950)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:116)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:408)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1040)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:607)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:314)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

This is my code for uploading the files:

final String UPLOAD_DIR="files";

    String applicationPath="/home/sandeep/java_proj/jee_tut";
    String uploadDirPath= applicationPath + File.separator + UPLOAD_DIR;

    try{
        File fileDir=new File(uploadDirPath);
        if(!fileDir.exists()){
            fileDir.mkdirs();
        }
        InputStream inputStream= null;
        OutputStream outputStream = null;
        try{
            for(Part part:request.getParts()){
                String fileName=getFileName(part);

                    File outputPath=new File(uploadDirPath + File.separator + fileName);
                    inputStream = part.getInputStream();
                    outputStream = new FileOutputStream(outputPath);

                    int read = 0;
                    final byte[] bytes = new byte[1024];
                    while((read=inputStream.read(bytes)) != -1){
                        outputStream.write(bytes, 0, read);
                    }
                System.out.println(fileName);
            }
        }catch(Exception e){
            e.printStackTrace();
            return "";
        }
        finally{
            if(inputStream != null){
                inputStream.close();
            }
            if(outputStream != null){
                outputStream.close();
            }
        }
        return uploadDirPath;

    }catch(Exception e){
        e.printStackTrace();
        return "";
    }

As I am new to java, I'm not sure why it is giving me this error. How do I debug this?

Answer 1

This error occured to me because I was using file.mkdirs() with complete fileName .

Suppose your file path is emulated/0/test/images/img.jpg

Then remove last part from the path and use file.mkdirs() on result file

File file = new File("emulated/0/test/images/")

if (!file.exists()) {
    file.mkdirs();
}