Creates a relative url by stripping the common parts of the the url. : URL « Network Protocol « Java






Creates a relative url by stripping the common parts of the the url.

     
import java.io.File;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;

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 * ------------
 * IOUtils.java
 * ------------
 * (C)opyright 2002-2004, by Thomas Morgner and Contributors.
 *
 * Original Author:  Thomas Morgner;
 * Contributor(s):   David Gilbert (for Object Refinery Limited);
 *
 * $Id: IOUtils.java,v 1.8 2009/01/22 08:34:58 taqua Exp $
 *
 * Changes
 * -------
 * 26-Jan-2003 : Initial version
 * 23-Feb-2003 : Documentation
 * 25-Feb-2003 : Fixed Checkstyle issues (DG);
 * 29-Apr-2003 : Moved to jcommon
 * 04-Jan-2004 : Fixed JDK 1.2.2 issues with createRelativeURL;
 *               added support for query strings within these urls (TM);
 */


/**
 * The IOUtils provide some IO related helper methods.
 *
 * @author Thomas Morgner.
 */
public class Main {

  /**
   * Checks, whether the URL uses a file based protocol.
   *
   * @param url the url.
   * @return true, if the url is file based.
   */
  private boolean isFileStyleProtocol(final URL url) {
      if (url.getProtocol().equals("http")) {
          return true;
      }
      if (url.getProtocol().equals("https")) {
          return true;
      }
      if (url.getProtocol().equals("ftp")) {
          return true;
      }
      if (url.getProtocol().equals("file")) {
          return true;
      }
      if (url.getProtocol().equals("jar")) {
          return true;
      }
      return false;
  }
  /**
   * Transforms the name list back into a single string, separated with "/".
   *
   * @param name the name list.
   * @param query the (optional) query for the URL.
   * @return the constructed name.
   */
  private String formatName(final List name, final String query) {
      final StringBuffer b = new StringBuffer();
      final Iterator it = name.iterator();
      while (it.hasNext()) {
          b.append(it.next());
          if (it.hasNext()) {
              b.append("/");
          }
      }
      if (query != null) {
          b.append('?');
          b.append(query);
      }
      return b.toString();
  }
  /**
   * Checks, whether the URL points to the same service. A service is equal
   * if the protocol, host and port are equal.
   *
   * @param url a url
   * @param baseUrl an other url, that should be compared.
   * @return true, if the urls point to the same host and port and use the 
   *         same protocol, false otherwise.
   */
  private boolean isSameService(final URL url, final URL baseUrl) {
      if (!url.getProtocol().equals(baseUrl.getProtocol())) {
          return false;
      }
      if (!url.getHost().equals(baseUrl.getHost())) {
          return false;
      }
      if (url.getPort() != baseUrl.getPort()) {
          return false;
      }
      return true;
  }
  /**
   * Parses the given name and returns the name elements as List of Strings.
   *
   * @param name the name, that should be parsed.
   * @return the parsed name.
   */
  private List parseName(final String name) {
      final ArrayList list = new ArrayList();
      final StringTokenizer strTok = new StringTokenizer(name, "/");
      while (strTok.hasMoreElements()) {
          final String s = (String) strTok.nextElement();
          if (s.length() != 0) {
              list.add(s);
          }
      }
      return list;
  }
  /**
   * Compares both name lists, and returns the last common index shared 
   * between the two lists.
   *
   * @param baseName the name created using the base url.
   * @param urlName  the target url name.
   * @return the number of shared elements.
   */
  private int startsWithUntil(final List baseName, final List urlName) {
      final int minIdx = Math.min(urlName.size(), baseName.size());
      for (int i = 0; i < minIdx; i++) {
          final String baseToken = (String) baseName.get(i);
          final String urlToken = (String) urlName.get(i);
          if (!baseToken.equals(urlToken)) {
              return i;
          }
      }
      return minIdx;
  }
  /**
   * Returns <code>true</code> if the URL represents a path, and 
   * <code>false</code> otherwise.
   * 
   * @param baseURL  the URL.
   * 
   * @return A boolean.
   */
  private boolean isPath(final URL baseURL) {
      if (getPath(baseURL).endsWith("/")) {
          return true;
      }
      else if (baseURL.getProtocol().equals("file")) {
          final File f = new File(getPath(baseURL));
          try {
              if (f.isDirectory()) {
                  return true;
              }
          }
          catch (SecurityException se) {
              // ignored ...
          }
      }
      return false;
  }

  /**
   * Implements the JDK 1.3 method URL.getPath(). The path is defined
   * as URL.getFile() minus the (optional) query.
   *
   * @param url the URL
   * @return the path
   */
  private String getQuery (final URL url) {
      final String file = url.getFile();
      final int queryIndex = file.indexOf('?');
      if (queryIndex == -1) {
          return null;
      }
      return file.substring(queryIndex + 1);
  }

  /**
   * Implements the JDK 1.3 method URL.getPath(). The path is defined
   * as URL.getFile() minus the (optional) query.
   *
   * @param url the URL
   * @return the path
   */
  private String getPath (final URL url) {
      final String file = url.getFile();
      final int queryIndex = file.indexOf('?');
      if (queryIndex == -1) {
          return file;
      }
      return file.substring(0, queryIndex);
  }
  /**
   * Creates a relative url by stripping the common parts of the the url.
   *
   * @param url the to be stripped url
   * @param baseURL the base url, to which the <code>url</code> is relative 
   *                to.
   * @return the relative url, or the url unchanged, if there is no relation
   * beween both URLs.
   */
  public String createRelativeURL(final URL url, final URL baseURL) {
      if (url == null) {
          throw new NullPointerException("content url must not be null.");
      }
      if (baseURL == null) {
          throw new NullPointerException("baseURL must not be null.");
      }
      if (isFileStyleProtocol(url) && isSameService(url, baseURL)) {

          // If the URL contains a query, ignore that URL; do not
          // attemp to modify it...
          final List urlName = parseName(getPath(url));
          final List baseName = parseName(getPath(baseURL));
          final String query = getQuery(url);

          if (!isPath(baseURL)) {
              baseName.remove(baseName.size() - 1);
          }

          // if both urls are identical, then return the plain file name... 
          if (url.equals(baseURL)) {
              return (String) urlName.get(urlName.size() - 1);
          }

          int commonIndex = startsWithUntil(urlName, baseName);
          if (commonIndex == 0) {
              return url.toExternalForm();
          }

          if (commonIndex == urlName.size()) {
              // correct the base index if there is some weird mapping 
              // detected,
              // fi. the file url is fully included in the base url:
              //
              // base: /file/test/funnybase
              // file: /file/test
              //
              // this could be a valid configuration whereever virtual 
              // mappings are allowed.
              commonIndex -= 1;
          }

          final ArrayList retval = new ArrayList();
          if (baseName.size() >= urlName.size()) {
              final int levels = baseName.size() - commonIndex;
              for (int i = 0; i < levels; i++) {
                  retval.add("..");
              }
          }

          retval.addAll(urlName.subList(commonIndex, urlName.size()));
          return formatName(retval, query);
      }
      return url.toExternalForm();
  }

}

   
    
    
    
    
  








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