Code for making a directory in the user's home space

Details:

This code makes a directory in the user's homespace for writing results etc. to, and returns the path as a String.

Original author/s: ESRI
Original location/s: How to consume custom geoprocessing tools in Java applications
License: unknown

Imports and instance variables:

	import java.io.File;

Code:

	private String getOutputDir(){
		String userDir;
		if (System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase().indexOf("win") >  - 1)
			userDir = System.getenv("UserProfile");
		else
			userDir = System.getenv("HOME");
		String outputDir = userDir + "/arcgis_sample_output"; // Although this uses a forward-slash, Java sorts it out for all OS.
		
		System.out.println("Creating output directory - " + outputDir);
		new File(outputDir).mkdir();
		return outputDir;
	}