I would recommend not to use exists() at all. Whenever I want to check
the existence of a resource I simply use the HEAD method.

For the given example:

if (webdavResource.headMethod("/rootpath/files/test.txt") {
   // test.txt exists
}

Regards,
Ingo

> All,
>  
> Does anyone know how to use exists() method in org.apache.webdav.lib.WebdavResource?
>  
>  
> In WebdavResource.java's comments, I find that exists() is similar to the exists() 
> in java.io.File, so I think if i want to check if one file(such as files/test.txt) 
> exists, i can do as following:
>  
>   1. create a instance of WebdavResource;
>   2. call setPath(/rootpath/files/test.txt); (rootPath is the slide's root path)
>   3. call exists() to check if the files exists.
>  
> but if the file doesn't exists, HttpException will be thrown when calling setPath(), 
> so I have no change to call exists(). 
>  
> Is my usage of exists() right? If not, how should i use it?
>  
> Thanks in advance.
>  
> regards
> Yong


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