Java – how do I force MKDIR to overwrite an existing directory?

I need my program to create a directory with a specific name and overwrite any existing directory with that name At present, my program seems unable to overwrite the directory Is there any way to force coverage?

private boolean makeDirectory(){
    File file = new File(TEMP_DIR_PATH + "/" + clipName);
    if (file.mkdir()) {
        return true;
    }
    else {
        System.err.println("Failed to create directory!");
        return false;
    }
}

Edit: now I am trying the following operation, but the program does not detect the existence of the directory, even if it does exist

private boolean makeDirectory(String path){
    File file = new File(path);
    if (file.exists()) {
        System.out.println("exists");
        if (file.delete()) {
            System.out.println("deleted");
        }
    }
    if (file.mkdir()) {
        return true;
    }
    else {
        System.err.println("Failed to create directory!");
        return false;
    }
}

Solution: (if someone needs to know in the future...) I finally did this:

private boolean makeDirectory(String path){
    if (Files.exists(Paths.get(path))) {
        try {
            FileUtils.deleteDirectory(new File(path));
        }
        catch (IOException ex) {
            System.err.println("Failed to create directory!");
            return false;
        }
    }    
    if (new File(path).mkdir()) {
        return true;
    }
    return false;
}

Solution

If a directory exists, you must first delete it and then recreate it

Using java. nio. file. Files

if (Files.exists(path)) {
    new File("/dir/path").delete();
} 

new File("/dir/path").mkdir();

If you have FileUtils, this might be better because it avoids actually deleting the directory you want there:

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils

if (Files.exists(path)) {
    FileUtils.cleanDirectory( new File("/dir/path"));
} else {
    new File("/dir/path").mkdir();
}