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/** * Copyright 2014 Google Inc. All rights reserved. * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package com.google.mr4c.util; import java.util.Arrays; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.List; import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils; public class PathUtils { /** * Takes the elements of one path and prepends any elements that are missing in another path */ public static String prependMissingPathElements(String path, String otherPath, String separator) { List<String> pathElements = Arrays.asList(StringUtils.split(path, separator)); List<String> otherElements = Arrays.asList(StringUtils.split(otherPath, separator)); List<String> toAdd = new ArrayList<String>(); for (String element : otherElements) { if (!pathElements.contains(element)) { toAdd.add(element); } } List<String> newElements = new ArrayList<String>(); newElements.addAll(toAdd); newElements.addAll(pathElements); return StringUtils.join(newElements, separator); } }