VirtualFile file = VirtualFileManager.getInstance().findFileByUrl("file:///path/to/file"); if(file != null && file.isValid()) { // perform operations on the file }
VirtualFile dir = VirtualFileManager.getInstance().findFileByUrl("file:///path/to/directory"); if(dir != null && dir.isValid() && dir.isDirectory()) { // perform operations on the directory }Similarly, we can retrieve the VirtualFile object for a directory and check if it is valid and a directory using the isValid and isDirectory methods respectively. This method belongs to the com.intellij.openapi.vfs package, which is part of the IntelliJ IDEA platform libraries.