Fetching filenames from a directory and adding to vector

Question

Hi all,
I am seeking your help to implement a certain logic.
I have a root directory. This directory contains hundreds of folders, subfolders and files.
I have a method(getChildren(pathname)) by which I get the children names corresponding to each directory, and for this I only need to give the path of the directory to the method, which returns the children vector.
I have a method to determine whether a name in the children vector is a directory or not.
The first path ; ie; the root directory path will be "/" . After that, for each sub directory, the path will be created by appending the directory name to it. ie; /subfolder1/subfolder2..
In short, I need to iterate through the entire directories and subdirectories in the root folder, by passing the path as argument to the getChildren(pathname) method .
I add all these child names to a vector.
Can anyone kindly help me by giving suggestions, as to how can I implement this logic.
Please help.
Any help will be appreciated with dukes.
Regards,
Rony

Answer 1

Thanks veldhanas,please refer my code posted and the comments given after this.
Vector getFileListing() throws FileNotFoundException {
              Vector result = new Vector();
              _constructChildren(new File("/"), result);
              System.out.println("result"+result);
             return result;
       private void _constructChildren(File dir, Vector files)
          if (dir.isDirectory())
               System.out.println("dir.getAbsolutePath"+dir.getAbsolutePath());
               Vector children = constructChildren(/*how to generate path to be passed from here*/);
               Iterator i = children.iterator();
               while(i.hasNext())
                    SFTPv3DirectoryEntry child = (SFTPv3DirectoryEntry) i.next();
                    if (child.attributes.isDirectory())
                         _constructChildren(new File(dir, child.filename), files);
                    else
                         files.add(child);
       }"How to maintain the path."
The root path(first path) will be "/" . Rest all I have to generate by appending the folder names.
This point is what puzzles me.
Once more I make my point clear. There are no methods to generate the path, instead it has to be generated manually.
The only initial path what we have is "/" . Later on path has to be generated in the format /dirname1 or /dirname1/dirname11 and the likes and load the children based on these paths and add to the result vector.
If i correctly generate the path by using the directory names in the format /.../.../.. , the constructchildren method will give the children corresponding to the path and my problem is solved!
Hope I am clear enough.