Hi there! Is there any way to delete a directory t...

# io

[Miguel Oliveira]

Hi there! Is there any way to delete a directory that might not be empty? FileSystem::delete does not work for that, as documented.

[Filipp Zhinkin]

Hi! Unfortunately no, at the moment there is no way to do that as directory listing is not yet supported (https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx-io/issues/222). It will be addressed as part of https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx-io/issues/241 in the near future.

[Michael Paus]

According to these release notes https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx-io/releases/tag/0.3.4 the directory listing function is now supported.

[Zhang Zihan]

fun FileSystem.deleteRecursively(path: Path, mustExist: Boolean = true) {
    if (metadataOrNull(path)?.isDirectory == true) {
        list(path).forEach {
            deleteRecursively(it, false)
        }
    }
    delete(path, mustExist)
}

[Miguel Oliveira]

Indeed! Thank you for the heads up.