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Recursively Delete a Directory in Haxe

Posted on 2015-11-28

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Haxe doesn't include any built-in APIs to delete a directory recursively (including all subdirectories and files). Although the sys.FileSystem class includes a deleteDirectory method, it throws an exception if the directory contains subdirectories or files.

This code recursively deletes directories and their contents:

private function deleteDirRecursively(path:String) : Void
{
  if (sys.FileSystem.exists(path) && sys.FileSystem.isDirectory(path))
  {
    var entries = sys.FileSystem.readDirectory(path);
    for (entry in entries) {
      if (sys.FileSystem.isDirectory(path + '/' + entry)) {
        deleteDirRecursively(path + '/' + entry);
        sys.FileSystem.deleteDirectory(path + '/' + entry);
      } else {
        sys.FileSystem.deleteFile(path + '/' + entry);
      }
    }
  }
}

It works by deleting all files in a directory, and by recursively deleting subdirectories and removing them if they have contents.