lidavidm commented on code in PR #42115:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/42115#discussion_r1637307747


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java/tools/src/main/java/org/apache/arrow/tools/FileRoundtrip.java:
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@@ -52,13 +52,29 @@ public static void main(String[] args) {
     System.exit(new FileRoundtrip(System.err).run(args));
   }
 
-  private File validateFile(String type, String fileName) {
+  private File validateFile(String type, String fileName) throws IOException {
     if (fileName == null) {
       throw new IllegalArgumentException("missing " + type + " file 
parameter");
     }
     File f = new File(fileName);
-    if (!f.exists() || f.isDirectory()) {
-      throw new IllegalArgumentException(type + " file not found: " + 
f.getAbsolutePath());
+    if (type.equals("input")) {
+      if (!f.exists() || f.isDirectory()) {
+        throw new IllegalArgumentException(type + " file not found: " + 
f.getAbsolutePath());
+      }
+    } else if (type.equals("output")) {
+      File parentDir = f.getParentFile();
+      if (parentDir != null && !parentDir.exists()) {
+        if (!parentDir.mkdirs()) {
+          throw new IOException(
+              "Failed to create parent directory: " + 
parentDir.getAbsolutePath());
+        }
+      }
+      if (!f.exists()) {

Review Comment:
   Er, but again...I can see why the output _directory_ needs to exist, but why 
does the output _file_ have to exist?



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