Java tutorial
/* * JBoss DNA (http://www.jboss.org/dna) * See the COPYRIGHT.txt file distributed with this work for information * regarding copyright ownership. Some portions may be licensed * to Red Hat, Inc. under one or more contributor license agreements. * See the AUTHORS.txt file in the distribution for a full listing of * individual contributors. * * JBoss DNA is free software. Unless otherwise indicated, all code in JBoss DNA * is licensed to you under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of * the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * JBoss DNA is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * Lesser General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public * License along with this software; if not, write to the Free * Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA * 02110-1301 USA, or see the FSF site: http://www.fsf.org. */ import java.io.File; import java.net.MalformedURLException; import java.net.URL; public class FileMonitor { /** * Utility to convert {@link File} to {@link URL}. * * @param filePath the path of the file * @return the {@link URL} representation of the file. * @throws MalformedURLException * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the file path is null, empty or blank */ public static URL convertFileToURL(String filePath) throws MalformedURLException { File file = new File(filePath.trim()); return file.toURI().toURL(); } }