Check if folder exists - filenet-p8

Question

my structure is as follows
MyRootFolder
└──subfolder1
└──subfolder2
.
.
.
└──subfolder n
I have a requirement where-in I need to check if a sub-folder exists within a root folder and if not create it. I can't find a direct API to check for the sub-folder existence. Instead, I see an API like
folder.get_SubFolders();
which would give me a list of all the sub-folders and then iterate to check if sub-folder exists or not. The problem here is that I might end up having to iterate many folders which I don't want to do. Is there a different way to achieve this? I'm using Filenet 5.2.1

Answer 1

ok, this is the closest option that I could find.
Search in FileNet for the subfolder using below query.
SELECT FolderName FROM Folder WHERE FolderName='subfolder1' and Parent=OBJECT({parent-folder-guid})
If the above search returns a result, the subfolder is present if not create one.

Answer 2

Another approach could be - you try to create a folder you want, if already exists dont create it else create it. To achieve it you dont have to iterate through the existing folders. I had the same requirement for one of my project where I had to move the content from shared drive to FileNet P8 and assigning properties to them while maintaining the same folder paths. Following snippet might help someone:
public static Folder createFolderStructure() {
Connection conn = Factory.Connection.getConnection(ConfigInfo.CE_URI);
Domain dom = Factory.Domain.getInstance(conn, null);
ObjectStore os = Factory.ObjectStore.getInstance(dom,
ConfigInfo.OBJECT_STORE_NAME);
Folder folder = null;
// pass your desired folder string here, excluding the starting root "/"
String folderpath = "APITest/some/folder/2014/12/2";
System.out.println("\nGiven input folder path is :: " + folderpath + "\n");
String[] myarray = folderpath.split("/");
for (int x = 0; x < myarray.length; x++) {
try {
if (x == 0) {
folder = Factory.Folder.createInstance(os, null);
Folder rootFolder = Factory.Folder.getInstance(os, null, "/");
folder.set_Parent(rootFolder);
folder.set_FolderName(myarray[x]);
System.out.println("Creating main (first) folder.. \t" + myarray[x]);
folder.save(RefreshMode.NO_REFRESH);
} else {
String currentfolder = myarray[x];
String parentfolder = "";
for (int i = 0; i < x; i++) {
folder = Factory.Folder.createInstance(os, null);
parentfolder = parentfolder + "/" + myarray[i];
Folder nxtrootFolder = Factory.Folder.getInstance(os, null, parentfolder);
folder.set_Parent(nxtrootFolder);
folder.set_FolderName(currentfolder);
}
System.out
.println("Trying to create " + currentfolder + " in " + parentfolder);
folder.save(RefreshMode.NO_REFRESH);
}
} catch (EngineRuntimeException ere) {
ExceptionCode code = ere.getExceptionCode();
if (code != ExceptionCode.E_NOT_UNIQUE) {
throw ere;
}
System.out.println("Above folder already exists...skipping...");
}
}
return folder;
}
This is copied from my own blog.