automatic creation of output directory

[Elisabeth Bader]

Hello,

I have a problem concerning the creation of output files. 
Apparently, if the directory of the output file specified in the
configuration file does not exist, log4j does not create it but throws
an Exception. 
As it would be useful in our project to have these directories created
automatically, I tried to change this. Here's my suggestion:

  public
  synchronized
  void setFile(String fileName, boolean append) 
                throws IOException {
    reset();
    // modifications from here
    File fi = new File(fileName);
    if ( !(fi.getParentFile().exists() )){
      if (!(fi.getParentFile().mkdirs()))
          return; // ? not sure if we can return safely here
    }
    // until here
    this.setQWForFiles(new FileWriter(fileName, append));
    this.tp = new TracerPrintWriter(qw);
    this.fileName = fileName;
    this.qwIsOurs = true;
  }

has anyone had the same problem, or an idea why it would be not
recommended to do so?

thanks
Elisabeth

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