javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: java.io.FileNotFoundException: <file_name>(Access is denied)

Question

I am getting exception at last line of code -

Transformer transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
DOMSource xmlSource = new DOMSource(document);

StreamResult result;
File f = new File(sFilePath);
if (f.exists() == false) {
   result = new StreamResult(f);
} else {
   result = new StreamResult(sFilePath);
}

transformer.transform(xmlSource, result);

The exception stacktrace is -

java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\ProgramData.\config\.xml (Access is denied) stacktrace javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\ProgramData.\config\.xml (Access is denied) at com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerImpl.getOutputHandler(Unknown Source) at com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerImpl.transform(Unknown Source) at com..main.dr.a(Unknown Source) at com..main.dr.a(Unknown Source) at com..main.dr.a(Unknown Source) at com..main.h.k(Unknown Source) at com..main.ay.run(Unknown Source) Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\ProgramData.\config\.xml (Access is denied) at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method) at java.io.FileOutputStream. (Unknown Source) at java.io.FileOutputStream. (Unknown Source) ... 7 more --------- java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\ProgramData.\config\.xml (Access is denied) at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method) at java.io.FileOutputStream. (Unknown Source) at java.io.FileOutputStream. (Unknown Source) at com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerImpl.getOutputHandler(Unknown Source) at com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerImpl.transform(Unknown Source) at com..main.dr.a(Unknown Source) at com..main.dr.a(Unknown Source) at com..main.dr.a(Unknown Source) at com..main.h.k(Unknown Source) at com..main.ay.run(Unknown Source) and the cause isjava.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\ProgramData.\config\.xml (Access is denied)

Answer 1

Try changing it to use the file's URI.getPath() instead of just passing File object into StreamResult.

eg. StreamResult result = new StreamResult(anOutputFile.toURI().getPath());