File Constructors

Definition

Overloads

File(URI)

Creates a new File instance by converting the given file: URI into an abstract pathname.

File(String)

Creates a new File instance by converting the given pathname string into an abstract pathname.

File(File, String)

Creates a new File instance from a parent abstract pathname and a child pathname string.

File(IntPtr, JniHandleOwnership)

A constructor used when creating managed representations of JNI objects; called by the runtime.

File(String, String)

Creates a new File instance from a parent pathname string and a child pathname string.

File(URI)

Creates a new File instance by converting the given file: URI into an abstract pathname.

[Android.Runtime.Register(".ctor", "(Ljava/net/URI;)V", "")]
public File (Java.Net.URI uri);
[<Android.Runtime.Register(".ctor", "(Ljava/net/URI;)V", "")>]
new Java.IO.File : Java.Net.URI -> Java.IO.File

Parameters

uri
URI

An absolute, hierarchical URI with a scheme equal to "file", a non-empty path component, and undefined authority, query, and fragment components

Attributes

Exceptions

if uri == null.

if uri does not comply with the conditions above.

Remarks

Creates a new File instance by converting the given file: URI into an abstract pathname.

The exact form of a file: URI is system-dependent, hence the transformation performed by this constructor is also system-dependent.

For a given abstract pathname f it is guaranteed that

<blockquote> new File(&nbsp;f.#toURI() toURI()).equals(&nbsp;f.#getAbsoluteFile() getAbsoluteFile()) </blockquote>

so long as the original abstract pathname, the URI, and the new abstract pathname are all created in (possibly different invocations of) the same Java virtual machine. This relationship typically does not hold, however, when a file: URI that is created in a virtual machine on one operating system is converted into an abstract pathname in a virtual machine on a different operating system.

Added in 1.4.

Java documentation for java.io.File.File(java.net.URI).

Portions of this page are modifications based on work created and shared by the Android Open Source Project and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 2.5 Attribution License.

See also

Applies to

File(String)

Creates a new File instance by converting the given pathname string into an abstract pathname.

[Android.Runtime.Register(".ctor", "(Ljava/lang/String;)V", "")]
public File (string pathname);
[<Android.Runtime.Register(".ctor", "(Ljava/lang/String;)V", "")>]
new Java.IO.File : string -> Java.IO.File

Parameters

pathname
String

A pathname string

Attributes

Exceptions

if path is null.

Remarks

Creates a new File instance by converting the given pathname string into an abstract pathname. If the given string is the empty string, then the result is the empty abstract pathname.

Java documentation for java.io.File.File(java.lang.String).

Portions of this page are modifications based on work created and shared by the Android Open Source Project and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 2.5 Attribution License.

Applies to

File(File, String)

Creates a new File instance from a parent abstract pathname and a child pathname string.

[Android.Runtime.Register(".ctor", "(Ljava/io/File;Ljava/lang/String;)V", "")]
public File (Java.IO.File? parent, string child);
[<Android.Runtime.Register(".ctor", "(Ljava/io/File;Ljava/lang/String;)V", "")>]
new Java.IO.File : Java.IO.File * string -> Java.IO.File

Parameters

parent
File

The parent abstract pathname

child
String

The child pathname string

Attributes

Exceptions

if name is null.

Remarks

Creates a new File instance from a parent abstract pathname and a child pathname string.

If parent is null then the new File instance is created as if by invoking the single-argument File constructor on the given child pathname string.

Otherwise the parent abstract pathname is taken to denote a directory, and the child pathname string is taken to denote either a directory or a file. If the child pathname string is absolute then it is converted into a relative pathname in a system-dependent way. If parent is the empty abstract pathname then the new File instance is created by converting child into an abstract pathname and resolving the result against a system-dependent default directory. Otherwise each pathname string is converted into an abstract pathname and the child abstract pathname is resolved against the parent.

Java documentation for java.io.File.File(java.io.File, java.lang.String).

Portions of this page are modifications based on work created and shared by the Android Open Source Project and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 2.5 Attribution License.

Applies to

File(IntPtr, JniHandleOwnership)

A constructor used when creating managed representations of JNI objects; called by the runtime.

protected File (IntPtr javaReference, Android.Runtime.JniHandleOwnership transfer);
new Java.IO.File : nativeint * Android.Runtime.JniHandleOwnership -> Java.IO.File

Parameters

javaReference
IntPtr

nativeint

A IntPtrcontaining a Java Native Interface (JNI) object reference.

transfer
JniHandleOwnership

A JniHandleOwnershipindicating how to handle javaReference

Remarks

Portions of this page are modifications based on work created and shared by the Android Open Source Project and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 2.5 Attribution License.

Applies to

File(String, String)

Creates a new File instance from a parent pathname string and a child pathname string.

[Android.Runtime.Register(".ctor", "(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;)V", "")]
public File (string? parent, string child);
[<Android.Runtime.Register(".ctor", "(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;)V", "")>]
new Java.IO.File : string * string -> Java.IO.File

Parameters

parent
String

The parent pathname string

child
String

The child pathname string

Attributes

Exceptions

if name == null.

Remarks

Creates a new File instance from a parent pathname string and a child pathname string.

If parent is null then the new File instance is created as if by invoking the single-argument File constructor on the given child pathname string.

Otherwise the parent pathname string is taken to denote a directory, and the child pathname string is taken to denote either a directory or a file. If the child pathname string is absolute then it is converted into a relative pathname in a system-dependent way. If parent is the empty string then the new File instance is created by converting child into an abstract pathname and resolving the result against a system-dependent default directory. Otherwise each pathname string is converted into an abstract pathname and the child abstract pathname is resolved against the parent.

Java documentation for java.io.File.File(java.lang.String, java.lang.String).

Portions of this page are modifications based on work created and shared by the Android Open Source Project and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 2.5 Attribution License.

Applies to