PathTool (Apache Maven Shared Utils 0.7 API)

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org.apache.maven.shared.utils
Class PathTool

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.maven.shared.utils.PathTool

public class PathTool
extends Object
extends Object

Path tool contains static methods to assist in determining path-related information such as relative paths.

This class originally got developed at Apache Anakia and later maintained in maven-utils of Apache Maven-1. Some external fixes by Apache Committers have been applied later.

Constructor Summary
`PathTool()`

Method Summary
`static String`	`getRelativeFilePath(String oldPath, String newPath)` This method can calculate the relative path between two pathes on a file system.
`static String`	`getRelativePath(String basedir, String filename)` Determines the relative path of a filename from a base directory.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
`clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait`

Constructor Detail

PathTool

public PathTool()

Method Detail

getRelativePath

public static String getRelativePath(@Nullable
                                     String basedir,
                                     @Nullable
                                     String filename)

Determines the relative path of a filename from a base directory. This method is useful in building relative links within pages of a web site. It provides similar functionality to Anakia's $relativePath context variable. The arguments to this method may contain either forward or backward slashes as file separators. The relative path returned is formed using forward slashes as it is expected this path is to be used as a link in a web page (again mimicking Anakia's behavior).

This method is thread-safe.

 PathTool.getRelativePath( null, null )                                   = ""
 PathTool.getRelativePath( null, "/usr/local/java/bin" )                  = ""
 PathTool.getRelativePath( "/usr/local/", null )                          = ""
 PathTool.getRelativePath( "/usr/local/", "/usr/local/java/bin" )         = ".."
 PathTool.getRelativePath( "/usr/local/", "/usr/local/java/bin/java.sh" ) = "../.."
 PathTool.getRelativePath( "/usr/local/java/bin/java.sh", "/usr/local/" ) = ""

Parameters:: basedir - The base directory.; filename - The filename that is relative to the base directory.
Returns:: The relative path of the filename from the base directory. This value is not terminated with a forward slash. A zero-length string is returned if: the filename is not relative to the base directory, basedir is null or zero-length, or filename is null or zero-length.

getRelativeFilePath

public static String getRelativeFilePath(String oldPath,
                                         String newPath)

This method can calculate the relative path between two pathes on a file system.

 PathTool.getRelativeFilePath( null, null )                                   = ""
 PathTool.getRelativeFilePath( null, "/usr/local/java/bin" )                  = ""
 PathTool.getRelativeFilePath( "/usr/local", null )                           = ""
 PathTool.getRelativeFilePath( "/usr/local", "/usr/local/java/bin" )          = "java/bin"
 PathTool.getRelativeFilePath( "/usr/local", "/usr/local/java/bin/" )         = "java/bin"
 PathTool.getRelativeFilePath( "/usr/local/java/bin", "/usr/local/" )         = "../.."
 PathTool.getRelativeFilePath( "/usr/local/", "/usr/local/java/bin/java.sh" ) = "java/bin/java.sh"
 PathTool.getRelativeFilePath( "/usr/local/java/bin/java.sh", "/usr/local/" ) = "../../.."
 PathTool.getRelativeFilePath( "/usr/local/", "/bin" )                        = "../../bin"
 PathTool.getRelativeFilePath( "/bin", "/usr/local/" )                        = "../usr/local"

Note: On Windows based system, the / character should be replaced by \ character.

Parameters:: oldPath - old path; newPath - new path
Returns:: a relative file path from oldPath.