How to get file attributes in ColdFusion 7?

Question

I cannot find a function that tells me the attributes of a given file. I specifically need to get the file's size. How do I find this info.?

edit:

I think I found an answer, just not the answer I was hoping for:

So far till ColdFusion 7, there was no good way to find information like size, last modified date etc about a file. Only way you could do that was to use cfdirectory tag to list the directory, get the query from it, loop over the query until you hit the desired file and then fetch the required metadata. http://coldfused.blogspot.com/2007/07/new-file-io-in-coldfusion-8-part-ii.html

Anyone know of a better way?

Answer 1

<cffunction name="getFileSize">
    <cfargument name="filepath">

    <cfreturn createObject("java","java.io.File").init(Arguments.filepath).length()>

</cffunction>

Answer 2

I believe cfdirectory is your simplest answer - but note, you can use the filter attribute as your filename, and you won't have to loop over the result.

Answer 3

The CFLib FileSysLibrary has a few functions which can do it for you.