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/* * Copyright (c) Mirth Corporation. All rights reserved. * * http://www.mirthcorp.com * * The software in this package is published under the terms of the MPL license a copy of which has * been included with this distribution in the LICENSE.txt file. */ package com.mirth.connect.util; import java.io.File; import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils; public class FilenameUtils { public static String getAbsolutePath(File baseDir, String path) { path = StringUtils.trim(path); File file = new File(path); if (file.isAbsolute()) { return file.getPath(); } char firstChar = path.charAt(0); /* * For Windows systems, if the path begins with a forward or back slash, extract the drive * letter from baseDir and use the drive's root directory as the new baseDir. */ if (firstChar == '/' || firstChar == '\\') { File parent = baseDir.getParentFile(); while (parent != null) { baseDir = parent; parent = baseDir.getParentFile(); } return new File(baseDir, path).getAbsolutePath(); } return new File(baseDir, path).getAbsolutePath(); } }