Is there a way to know if a file REALLY exists?

[jjcarneiro]

If a large file is being copied into a diretory. FileUtilService.Exists will return TRUE. That only indicates a 'directory entry' exists, not that the file is there and available.

Is there a way to get that information? If you get Windows' file proeprties it will tell you that the file is 'locked', but I do not see any FileUtilService to get that info.

Is there a solution to that?

TIA

julio

[Former Community Member]

Possibly you could do it in an Execute Script step using methods available on the Java File object.

[jjcarneiro]

Hi Steve,

That is exactly what I ended up doing.

For future reference here is the script code I used, seems to do the job:

File filename =pathToFile( patExecContext.getProcessDataStringValue("/process_data/@filepath"));
boolean doesFileReallyExists = filename.canWrite();
if (doesFileReallyExists ) {
            try {
                ran = new RandomAccessFile(filename , "rw");
                 try { 
                    if (ran != null) ran.close();
                 }  catch (IOException ioe) {
                 }
            } catch (Exception ex) {
                doesFileReallyExists = false;
           }
 }
patExecContext.setProcessDataBooleanValue("/process_data/@fileExists", doesFileReallyExists );

One caveat of that script is that LCES needs R/W access to the file/document.

hth

julio