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Return a context-relative path, beginning with a "/", that represents the canonical version of the specified path after ".." and "." elements are resolved out.

   

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/**
 * 
 * 
 * @author <a href="mailto:jvanzyl@apache.org">Jason van Zyl</a>
 * @author <a href="mailto:dlr@finemaltcoding.com">Daniel Rall</a>
 * @version $Id: StringUtils.java 685685 2008-08-13 21:43:27Z nbubna $
 */
public class Main {

  /**
   * Return a context-relative path, beginning with a "/", that represents the
   * canonical version of the specified path after ".." and "." elements are
   * resolved out. If the specified path attempts to go outside the boundaries
   * of the current context (i.e. too many ".." path elements are present),
   * return <code>null</code> instead.
   * 
   * @param path
   *          Path to be normalized
   * @return String normalized path
   */
  public static final String normalizePath(String path) {
    // Normalize the slashes and add leading slash if necessary
    String normalized = path;
    if (normalized.indexOf('\\') >= 0) {
      normalized = normalized.replace('\\', '/');
    }

    if (!normalized.startsWith("/")) {
      normalized = "/" + normalized;
    }

    // Resolve occurrences of "//" in the normalized path
    while (true) {
      int index = normalized.indexOf("//");
      if (index < 0)
        break;
      normalized = normalized.substring(0, index) + normalized.substring(index + 1);
    }

    // Resolve occurrences of "%20" in the normalized path
    while (true) {
      int index = normalized.indexOf("%20");
      if (index < 0)
        break;
      normalized = normalized.substring(0, index) + " " + normalized.substring(index + 3);
    }

    // Resolve occurrences of "/./" in the normalized path
    while (true) {
      int index = normalized.indexOf("/./");
      if (index < 0)
        break;
      normalized = normalized.substring(0, index) + normalized.substring(index + 2);
    }

    // Resolve occurrences of "/../" in the normalized path
    while (true) {
      int index = normalized.indexOf("/../");
      if (index < 0)
        break;
      if (index == 0)
        return (null); // Trying to go outside our context
      int index2 = normalized.lastIndexOf('/', index - 1);
      normalized = normalized.substring(0, index2) + normalized.substring(index + 3);
    }

    // Return the normalized path that we have completed
    return (normalized);
  }

}

   
    
    
  








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