/* Aalto XML processor
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2006- Tatu Saloranta, tatu.saloranta@iki.fi
 *
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 * included with the source code.
 * You may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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package com.fasterxml.aalto.util;

import java.io.*;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;

public final class URLUtil
{
    private URLUtil() { }

    
Method that tries to figure out how to create valid URL from a system id, without additional contextual information. We could perhaps use java.net.URI class in future?
/** * Method that tries to figure out how to create valid URL from a system * id, without additional contextual information. We could perhaps use * java.net.URI class in future? */
public static URL urlFromSystemId(String sysId) throws IOException { try { /* Ok, does it look like a full URL? For one, you need a colon. * Also, to reduce likelihood of collision with Windows paths, * let's only accept it if there are 3 preceding other chars... * Not sure if Mac might be a problem? (it uses ':' as file path * separator, alas, at least prior to MacOS X) */ int ix = sysId.indexOf(':', 0); /* Also, protocols are generally fairly short, usually 3 or 4 * chars (http, ftp, urn); so let's put upper limit of 8 chars too */ if (ix >= 3 && ix <= 8) { return new URL(sysId); } return fileToURL(new File(sysId)); } catch (MalformedURLException e) { throwIoException(e, sysId); return null; // never gets here } } public static URL urlFromSystemId(String sysId, URL ctxt) throws IOException { if (ctxt == null) { return urlFromSystemId(sysId); } try { return new URL(ctxt, sysId); } catch (MalformedURLException e) { throwIoException(e, sysId); return null; // never gets here } }
Method that tries to create and return URL that denotes current working directory. Usually used to create a context, when one is not explicitly passed.
/** * Method that tries to create and return URL that denotes current * working directory. Usually used to create a context, when one is * not explicitly passed. */
public static URL urlFromCurrentDir() throws IOException /* an IOException */ { /* This seems to work; independent of whether there happens to * be such/file dir or not. */ return fileToURL(new File("a").getAbsoluteFile().getParentFile()); }
Method that tries to get a stream (ideally, optimal one) to read from the specified URL. Currently it just means creating a simple file input stream if the URL points to a (local) file, and otherwise relying on URL classes input stream creation method.
/** * Method that tries to get a stream (ideally, optimal one) to read from * the specified URL. * Currently it just means creating a simple file input stream if the * URL points to a (local) file, and otherwise relying on URL classes * input stream creation method. */
public static InputStream inputStreamFromURL(URL url) throws IOException { if ("file".equals(url.getProtocol())) { /* On Windows, we can only create file readers for local * files... not sure about NFS, but let's be conservative: */ String host = url.getHost(); if (host == null || host.length() == 0) { return new FileInputStream(url.getPath()); } } return url.openStream(); }
Method that tries to get a stream (ideally, optimal one) to write to the resource specified by given URL. Currently it just means creating a simple file output stream if the URL points to a (local) file, and otherwise relying on URL classes input stream creation method.
/** * Method that tries to get a stream (ideally, optimal one) to write to * the resource specified by given URL. * Currently it just means creating a simple file output stream if the * URL points to a (local) file, and otherwise relying on URL classes * input stream creation method. */
public static OutputStream outputStreamFromURL(URL url) throws IOException { if ("file".equals(url.getProtocol())) { // as with inputStreamFromURL, avoid probs with Windows network mounts: String host = url.getHost(); if (host == null || host.length() == 0) { return new FileOutputStream(url.getPath()); } } return url.openConnection().getOutputStream(); }
This method is added because the default conversion using file.toURL() turns out to be rather slow, as it tries to figure out if the file is actually a directory. Now, for our use cases this is irrelevant, so we can optimize out that expensive part.
/** * This method is added because the default conversion using * <code>file.toURL()</code> turns out to be rather slow, as * it tries to figure out if the file is actually a directory. * Now, for our use cases this is irrelevant, so we can optimize * out that expensive part. */
public static URL fileToURL(File f) throws IOException { /* Based on earlier experiences, looked like using * File.toURL() is rather expensive (at least on jdk1.4/1.5), * so let's just use a faster replacement */ String absPath = f.getAbsolutePath(); // Need to convert colons/backslashes to regular slashes? { char sep = File.separatorChar; if (sep != '/') { absPath = absPath.replace(sep, '/'); } } if (absPath.length() > 0 && absPath.charAt(0) != '/') { absPath = "/" + absPath; } return new URL("file", "", absPath); } public static String fileToSystemId(File f) throws IOException { return fileToURL(f).toExternalForm(); } public static String urlToSystemId(URL u) { return u.toExternalForm(); } /* /////////////////////////////////////////// // Private helper methods /////////////////////////////////////////// */
Helper method that tries to fully convert strange URL-specific exception to more general IO exception. Also, to try to use JDK 1.4 feature without creating requirement, uses reflection to try to set the root cause, if we are running on JDK1.4
/** * Helper method that tries to fully convert strange URL-specific exception * to more general IO exception. Also, to try to use JDK 1.4 feature without * creating requirement, uses reflection to try to set the root cause, if * we are running on JDK1.4 */
private static void throwIoException(MalformedURLException mex, String sysId) throws IOException { IOException ie = new IOException("[resolving systemId '"+sysId +"']: "+mex.toString()); ie.initCause(mex); throw ie; } }