Java API has URL parsing ability?

[taras.di]

Hi all,

I was wondering if any Java API gurus out there know of any methods
that Java provides that parses a relative path in a URL - that is, it
removes all of the escape characters and replaces it with the proper
characters. I've looked at java.net.URI, but it seems to me that you
need to construct a URI in order to use the getPath() method - I
already have a get path method: I just need to parse the relative path.

Thanks in advance

Taras

 

[Roedy Green]

I was wondering if any Java API gurus out there know of any methods
that Java provides that parses a relative path in a URL - that is, it
removes all of the escape characters and replaces it with the proper
characters.

You want to URLDecode first then check out URI URN URL

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/urlencoded.html

 

[Stefan Schulz]

Hi all,

I was wondering if any Java API gurus out there know of any methods
that Java provides that parses a relative path in a URL - that is, it
removes all of the escape characters and replaces it with the proper
characters. I've looked at java.net.URI, but it seems to me that you
need to construct a URI in order to use the getPath() method - I
already have a get path method: I just need to parse the relative path.

Assuming you mean you have a relative path to a file, look into file://
type URLs, they should, together with absolute paths, solve your problem.