Java Canonical Path Create getCanonicalFile(File file)

Description

get Canonical File

License

GNU General Public License

Declaration

public static File getCanonicalFile(File file) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/* This code is part of Freenet. It is distributed under the GNU General
 * Public License, version 2 (or at your option any later version). See
 * http://www.gnu.org/ for further details of the GPL. */

import java.io.File;

import java.io.IOException;

public class Main {
    public static File getCanonicalFile(File file) {
        // Having some problems storing File's in db4o ...
        // It would start up, and canonicalise a file with path "/var/lib/freenet-experimental/persistent-temp-24374"
        // to /var/lib/freenet-experimental/var/lib/freenet-experimental/persistent-temp-24374 
        // (where /var/lib/freenet-experimental is the current working dir)
        // Regenerating from path worked. So do that here.
        // And yes, it's voodoo.
        file = new File(file.getPath());
        File result;//from  w w w .  j a  va2  s.co m
        try {
            result = file.getAbsoluteFile().getCanonicalFile();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            result = file.getAbsoluteFile();
        }
        return result;
    }
}

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1. getCanonicalDirectory(final String rawDir)
2. getCanonicalDirectory(String path, String errPrefix)
3. getCanonicalFile(@Nullable final File aFile)
4. getCanonicalFile(File f)
5. getCanonicalFile(File file)
6. getCanonicalFile(File file)
7. getCanonicalFile(File file)
8. getCanonicalFile(File inFile)
9. getCanonicalFile(final File file)