classUtils.pack.util
Class PathNormalizer

java.lang.Object
  classUtils.pack.util.PathNormalizer

public class PathNormalizer
extends java.lang.Object

An utility class to compute normalized paths (i.e. paths that do not contain neither "." nor "..")

Version:

1.0

Author:

C. Sadun

Constructor Summary

PathNormalizer()

Method Summary

static java.io.File	normalize(java.io.File path) Normalizes a file object.
static java.lang.String	normalizePath(java.lang.String path) Normalizes a string path.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

PathNormalizer

public PathNormalizer()

Method Detail

normalize

public static java.io.File normalize(java.io.File path)

Normalizes a file object. The returned file object will return the normalize path when File.getAbsolutePath() is invoked.

Parameters:

path - the File object to be normalized

Returns:

a File object whose absolute path name is normalized

normalizePath

public static java.lang.String normalizePath(java.lang.String path)

Normalizes a string path. The returned path does not contain ".." or "." references

Parameters:

path - the path to be normalized.

Returns:

a String object containing the normalized path