org.sadun.util
Class PathNormalizer

java.lang.Object
  org.sadun.util.PathNormalizer

public class PathNormalizer

extends java.lang.Object

An utility class to compute normalized paths (i.e. paths that do not contain neither "." nor "..")

v1.2 supports windows UNC paths (on windows)

Version:

1.2

Author:

C. Sadun (v1.1 patched by Doug.Liao@fnf.com)

Constructor Summary

PathNormalizer()

Method Summary

static java.io.File	normalize(java.io.File path) Normalizes a file object.
static java.lang.String	normalizePath(java.lang.String path) Normalizes a string path.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

PathNormalizer

public PathNormalizer()

Method Detail

normalize

public static java.io.File normalize(java.io.File path)

Normalizes a file object. The returned file object will return the normalize path when File.getAbsolutePath() is invoked.

Parameters:

path - the File object to be normalized

Returns:

a File object whose absolute path name is normalized

normalizePath

public static java.lang.String normalizePath(java.lang.String path)

Normalizes a string path. The returned path does not contain ".." or "." references

Parameters:

path - the path to be normalized.

Returns:

a String object containing the normalized path