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Java » Network Protocol » URLScreenshots 
Create valid URL from a system id
  

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;

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. If we could use URIs this might
   * be easier to do, but they are part of JDK 1.4, and preferably code should
   * only require 1.2 (or maybe 1.3)
   */
  public static URL urlFromSystemId(String sysIdthrows 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 >= && ix <= 8) {
        return new URL(sysId);
      }
      // Ok, let's just assume it's local file reference...
      /*
       * 24-May-2006, TSa: Amazingly, this single call does show in profiling,
       * for small docs. The problem is that deep down it tries to check
       * physical file system, to check if the File pointed to is a directory:
       * and that is (relatively speaking) a very expensive call. Since in this
       * particular case it should never be a dir (and/or doesn't matter), let's
       * just implement conversion locally
       */
      String absPath = new java.io.File(sysId).getAbsolutePath();
      // Need to convert colons/backslashes to regular slashes?
      {
        char sep = File.separatorChar;
        if (sep != '/') {
          absPath = absPath.replace(sep, '/');
        }
      }
      if (absPath.length() && absPath.charAt(0!= '/') {
        absPath = "/" + absPath;
      }
      return new URL("file""", absPath);
    catch (MalformedURLException e) {

      return null// never gets here
    }
  }

  public static URL urlFromSystemId(String sysId, URL ctxtthrows IOException {
    if (ctxt == null) {
      return urlFromSystemId(sysId);
    }
    try {
      return new URL(ctxt, sysId);
    catch (MalformedURLException e) {

      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.
   */
  public static URL urlFromCurrentDir() throws java.net.MalformedURLException /*
                                                                               * an
                                                                               * IOException
                                                                               */
  {
    /*
     * This seems to work; independent of whether there happens to be such/file
     * dir or not.
     */
    return new File("a").getAbsoluteFile().getParentFile().toURL();
  }

  /**
   * 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 urlthrows IOException {
    if ("file".equals(url.getProtocol())) {
      /*
       * As per [WSTX-82], can not do this if the path refers to a network drive
       * on windows. This fixes the problem; might not be needed on all
       * platforms (NFS?), but should not matter a lot: performance penalty of
       * extra wrapping is more relevant when accessing local file system.
       */
      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.
   */
  public static OutputStream outputStreamFromURL(URL urlthrows IOException {
    if ("file".equals(url.getProtocol())) {
      /*
       * As per [WSTX-82], can not do this if the path refers to a network drive
       * on windows.
       */
      String host = url.getHost();
      if (host == null || host.length() == 0) {
        return new FileOutputStream(url.getPath());
      }
    }
    return url.openConnection().getOutputStream();
  }

}

   
    
  
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