Trying to save user profile picture does not work this way

Hello,

I have an app where each user can have a profile picture. When the user first registers a new standard profile picture will be set for him which will be editable. So I am creating the profile picture after the registration as shown below:

String femalePicture = System.getProperty("user.dir") + "/images/icons/female.png";

String malePicture = System.getProperty("user.dir") + "/images/icons/male.png";

String userDirectory = userDetails.getUsername().replaceAll("\\.", "");

String destination = System.getProperty("user.dir") + "/files/profile_pictures/" + userDirectory + ".png";

File destinationFile = new File(destination);

if (destinationFile.getParentFile() != null) {

destinationFile.getParentFile().mkdirs();

}

if (userDetails.getGender().equals("Female")) {

Files.copy(new File(femalePicture).toPath(), destinationFile.toPath(), StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING);

} else {

Files.copy(new File(malePicture).toPath(), destinationFile.toPath(), StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING);

}

Basically it copies an existing image (male or female) from a already existing folder on the server to another folder but with a different name which corresponds to a modified username.

The problem I am facing here is that the image will be deleted when I restart/recompile the GWT application, since the data is only on the server.

How can I get this working? What are my solutions to the problem described above?

Thanks in advance

Andrei

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