Java URL to convertURIToURL(URI uri)

Description

Tries to convert the specified URI to a URL.

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
uri	the URI to be converted

Return

the resulting URL or null

Declaration

static URL convertURIToURL(URI uri) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
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import java.io.File;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.URL;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Tries to convert the specified URI to a URL. If this causes an exception,
     * result is <b>null</b>.
     *
     * @param uri the URI to be converted
     * @return the resulting URL or <b>null</b>
     */
    static URL convertURIToURL(URI uri) {
        try {
            return uri.toURL();
        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
            return null;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Convert the specified file into an URL. This method is equivalent
     * to file.toURI().toURL(). It was used to work around a bug in the JDK
     * preventing the transformation of a file into an URL if the file name
     * contains a '#' character. See the issue CONFIGURATION-300 for
     * more details. Now that we switched to JDK 1.4 we can directly use
     * file.toURI().toURL().
     *
     * @param file the file to be converted into an URL
     */
    static URL toURL(File file) throws MalformedURLException {
        return file.toURI().toURL();
    }
}

Related

1. convertURL(String url)
2. convertURLToFile(URL url)
3. convertUrlToFilename(URL url)
4. convertUrlToFilePath(URL url)