How to get absolute paths of files in a directory?

Question

I have a directory with files, directories, subdirectories, etc. How I can get the list of absolute paths to all files and directories using the Apache Hadoop API?

Answer 1

Using HDFS API :

package org.myorg.hdfsdemo;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileStatus;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;



public class HdfsDemo {

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

        Configuration conf = new Configuration();
        conf.addResource(new Path("/Users/miqbal1/hadoop-eco/hadoop-1.1.2/conf/core-site.xml"));
        conf.addResource(new Path("/Users/miqbal1/hadoop-eco/hadoop-1.1.2/conf/hdfs-site.xml"));
        FileSystem fs = FileSystem.get(conf);
        System.out.println("Enter the directory name :");
        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
        Path path = new Path(br.readLine());
        displayDirectoryContents(fs, path);
    }

    private static void displayDirectoryContents(FileSystem fs, Path rootDir) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        try {

            FileStatus[] status = fs.listStatus(rootDir);
            for (FileStatus file : status) {
                if (file.isDir()) {
                    System.out.println("This is a directory:" + file.getPath());
                    displayDirectoryContents(fs, file.getPath());
                } else {
                    System.out.println("This is a file:" + file.getPath());
                }
            }
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Answer 2

Writer a recursive function which takes a file and check if its a directory or not, if directory list out all files in it and in a for loop check if the file is a directory then recursively call or just return the list of files.

Something like this below but not exactly same (here I am returning only .java files)

private static List<File> recursiveDir(File file) {
    if (!file.isDirectory()) {
//          System.out.println("[" + file.getName() + "] is not a valid directory");
        return null;
    }

    List<File> returnList = new ArrayList<File>();
    File[] files = file.listFiles();
    for (File f : files) {
        if (!f.isDirectory()) {
            if (f.getName().endsWith("java")) {
                returnList.add(f);
            }
        } else {
            returnList.addAll(recursiveDir(f));
        }
    }
    return returnList;
}