Using Java nio to create a subdirectory and file
file, java, nio
Solution
You could declare your `confFile` as `File` instead of `Path`. Then you can use `confFile.getParentFile().mkdirs();`, see example below:
// ...
File confFile = new File("./conf/conf.xml");
confFile.getParentFile().mkdirs();
// ...
Or, using your code as is, you can use:
Files.createDirectories(confFile.getParent());
Problem
I'm creating a simple program that will try to read in "conf/conf.xml" from disk, but if this file or dir doesn't exist will instead create them. I can do this using the following code: ``` // create subdirectory path Path confDir = Paths.get("./conf"); // create file-in-subdirectory path Path confFile = Paths.get("./conf/conf.xml"); // if the sub-directory doesn't exist then create it if (Files.notExists(confDir)) { try { Files.createDirectory(confDir); } catch (Exception e ) { e.printStackTrace(); } } // if the file doesn't exist then create it if (Files.notExists(confFile)) { try { Files.createFile(confFile); } catch (Exception e ) { e.printStackTrace(); } } ``` My questions is if this really the most elegant way to do this? It seems superflous to need to create two Paths simple to create a new file in a new subdirectory.