Do an action when an error occurs RxJava - error-handling

Question

I need to create a folder when it doesn't exist. In my case, the only way to do so is to capture the error and handle it to create the folder wanted.
But all i can find is
public static Observable<Boolean> folderExists(final Context context, final String targetPath, final String currentpath) {
Application application = Application.get(context);
//i browse the folder to get all the items
return browseFolderObservable(context,currentpath)
.subscribeOn(application.defaultSubscribeScheduler())
.doOnError(new Action1<Throwable>() {
#Override
public void call(Throwable throwable) {
BsSdkLog.d("Error no file found");
}
})
.map(new Func1<ArrayList<Item>, Boolean>() {
#Override
public Boolean call(ArrayList<Item> items) {
if(items.isEmpty()) {
BsSdkLog.d(" No items");
return false;
}else {
for(int i=0;i<items.size();i++)
{
Item item=items.get(i);
BsSdkLog.d(item.toString());
}
BsSdkLog.d("Right-here");
return true;
}
}
});
}
I want to call the method that i have that creates the folder when the error occurs but i don't know how to do that.
I'm new to this so i'd really appreciate the help
Thanks

Answer 1

The basic principe looks like this. I used the Java NIO library for testing.
The method 'createFolder' just wraps creating a folder. The test 'name' invokes the Single and checks for an Exception. If it is an IOException it will return a fallback value. You may do something different in there. You just provide a fallback single. If it is an error different from IOException, it will return the error.
#Test
void name() throws Exception {
final String TO_CREATE = "/home/sergej/Downloads/Wurstbrot";
this.createFolder(TO_CREATE)
.onErrorResumeNext(throwable -> { // handle Exception:
// Validate Exception
if (throwable instanceof IOException) {
// Return fallback
return Single.just(Paths.get("/home/sergej/Downloads/"));
}
return Single.error(throwable);
})
.test()
.await()
.assertValueCount(1)
.assertValue(path -> path.endsWith(TO_CREATE))
.assertNoErrors();
}
private Single<Path> createFolder(String p) {
return Single.defer(() -> { // may throw some IOException
Path path = Paths.get(p);
if (!Files.exists(path)) {
Path createdDirectory = Files.createDirectory(path); // will throw if already exists
return Single.just(createdDirectory);
}
// Or just return Path, because it already exists???
return Single.error(new IOException("Already exists"));
});
}