Recursively list files in Java

Question

How do I recursively list all files under a directory in Java? Does the framework provide any utility?

I saw a lot of hacky implementations. But none from the fra

Answer 1

Here a simple but perfectly working solution using recursion:

public static List listFiles(String rootDirectory)
{
    List files = new ArrayList<>();
    listFiles(rootDirectory, files);

    return files;
}

private static void listFiles(String path, List collectedFiles)
{
    File root = new File(path);
    File[] files = root.listFiles();

    if (files == null)
    {
        return;
    }

    for (File file : files)
    {
        if (file.isDirectory())
        {
            listFiles(file.getAbsolutePath(), collectedFiles);
        } else
        {
            collectedFiles.add(file.toPath());
        }
    }
}