FileoutputStream FileNotFoundException

Question

I'm using java SE eclipse. As I know, When there are no file named by parameter FileOutputStream constructor create new file named by parameter. However, with proceeding I see that FileOutputStream make exception FileNotFoundException. I really don't know Why this exception needed. Anything wrong with my knowledge?

My code is following(make WorkBook and write into file. In this code, although there are no file "data.xlsx", FileOutpuStream make file "data.xlsx".

    public ExcelData() {
    try {
        fileIn = new FileInputStream("data.xlsx");
        try {
            wb = WorkbookFactory.create(fileIn);
            sheet1 = wb.getSheet(Constant.SHEET1_NAME);
            sheet2 = wb.getSheet(Constant.SHEET2_NAME);
        } catch (EncryptedDocumentException | InvalidFormatException | IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } // if there is file, copy data into workbook
    } catch (FileNotFoundException e1) {
        initWb();
        try {
            fileOut = new FileOutputStream("data.xlsx");
            wb.write(fileOut);
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } 

    } // if there is not file, create init workbook

} // ExcelData()

If anything weird, please let me know, thank you

Solution 1

It will throw a FileNotFoundException if the file doesn't exist and cannot be created (doc), but it will create it if it can. To be sure you probably should first test that the file exists before you create the FileOutputStream (and create with createNewFile() if it doesn't)

File yourFile = new File("score.txt");
yourFile.createNewFile();
FileOutputStream oFile = new FileOutputStream(yourFile, false); 

Answer from here: Java FileOutputStream Create File if not exists

Solution 2

There is another case, where new FileOutputStream("...") throws a FileNotFoundException, i.e. on Windows, when the file is existing, but file attribute hidden is set.

Here, there is no way out, but resetting the hidden attribute before opening the file stream, like

Files.setAttribute(yourFile.toPath(), "dos:hidden", false); 

Comments

[Mr.choi]

Does it mean case by case depends on the parameter FileOutputStream make new file or not??

[The Javatar]

It means that it should normally create the file if it doesn't exists but if it is the case that it can't create the file (ex.: no permissions) will throw that exception