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/*L * Copyright SAIC, SAIC-Frederick. * * Distributed under the OSI-approved BSD 3-Clause License. * See http://ncip.github.com/caadapter/LICENSE.txt for details. */ package gov.nih.nci.cbiit.cmts.util; import java.io.File; import java.util.regex.Pattern; import org.apache.commons.io.FilenameUtils; public class ResourceUtils { /** * Get the relative path from one file to another, specifying the directory separator. * If one of the provided resources does not exist, it is assumed to be a file unless it ends with '/' or * '\'. * * @param targetPath is calculated to this file * @param basePath is calculated from this file * @param pathSeparator directory separator. The platform default is not assumed so that we can test Unix behaviour when running on Windows (for example) * @return target relative path from the base */ public static String getRelativePath(String targetPath, String basePath, String pathSeparator) { if (targetPath.toLowerCase().startsWith("file:/")) { targetPath = targetPath.substring(6); while (targetPath.startsWith("/")) targetPath = targetPath.substring(1); } if (basePath.toLowerCase().startsWith("file:/")) { basePath = basePath.substring(6); while (basePath.startsWith("/")) basePath = basePath.substring(1); } String tempS = basePath; while (true) { File baseF = new File(tempS); if ((baseF.exists()) && (baseF.isFile())) { basePath = baseF.getAbsolutePath(); break; } if (!pathSeparator.equals("/")) break; if (tempS.startsWith("/")) break; tempS = "/" + tempS; } tempS = targetPath; while (true) { File targetF = new File(tempS); if ((targetF.exists()) && (targetF.isFile())) { targetPath = targetF.getAbsolutePath(); break; } if (!pathSeparator.equals("/")) break; if (tempS.startsWith("/")) break; tempS = "/" + tempS; } // Normalize the paths //System.out.println("ResourceUtils.getRelativePath()..target("+pathSeparator+"):"+targetPath); //System.out.println("ResourceUtils.getRelativePath()..base("+pathSeparator+"):"+basePath); String normalizedTargetPath = FilenameUtils.normalizeNoEndSeparator(targetPath); String normalizedBasePath = FilenameUtils.normalizeNoEndSeparator(basePath); // Undo the changes to the separators made by normalization if (pathSeparator.equals("/")) { normalizedTargetPath = FilenameUtils.separatorsToUnix(normalizedTargetPath); normalizedBasePath = FilenameUtils.separatorsToUnix(normalizedBasePath); } else if (pathSeparator.equals("\\")) { normalizedTargetPath = FilenameUtils.separatorsToWindows(normalizedTargetPath); normalizedBasePath = FilenameUtils.separatorsToWindows(normalizedBasePath); } else { throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unrecognised dir separator '" + pathSeparator + "'"); } //System.out.println("ResourceUtils.getRelativePath()..normalizedTarget("+pathSeparator+"):"+normalizedTargetPath); //System.out.println("ResourceUtils.getRelativePath()..normalizedBase("+pathSeparator+"):"+normalizedBasePath); String[] base = normalizedBasePath.split(Pattern.quote(pathSeparator)); String[] target = normalizedTargetPath.split(Pattern.quote(pathSeparator)); // First get all the common elements. Store them as a string, // and also count how many of them there are. StringBuffer common = new StringBuffer(); int commonIndex = 0; while (commonIndex < target.length && commonIndex < base.length && target[commonIndex].trim().equals(base[commonIndex].trim())) { common.append(target[commonIndex].trim() + pathSeparator); commonIndex++; } if (commonIndex == 0) { // No single common path element. This most // likely indicates differing drive letters, like C: and D:. // These paths cannot be relativized. File ff = new File(targetPath); if ((ff.exists()) && (ff.isFile())) return ff.getAbsolutePath(); else throw new IllegalArgumentException("No common path element found for '" + normalizedTargetPath + "' and '" + normalizedBasePath + "'"); } // The number of directories we have to backtrack depends on whether the base is a file or a dir // For example, the relative path from // // /foo/bar/baz/gg/ff to /foo/bar/baz // // ".." if ff is a file // "../.." if ff is a directory // // The following is a heuristic to figure out if the base refers to a file or dir. It's not perfect, because // the resource referred to by this path may not actually exist, but it's the best I can do boolean baseIsFile = true; File baseResource = new File(normalizedBasePath); if (baseResource.exists()) { baseIsFile = baseResource.isFile(); } else if (basePath.endsWith(pathSeparator)) { baseIsFile = false; } StringBuffer relative = new StringBuffer(); if (base.length != commonIndex) { int numDirsUp = baseIsFile ? base.length - commonIndex - 1 : base.length - commonIndex; for (int i = 0; i < numDirsUp; i++) { relative.append(".." + pathSeparator); } } relative.append(normalizedTargetPath.substring(common.length())); //System.out.println("ResourceUtils.getRelativePath()..relativeTarget:"+relative.toString()); return relative.toString(); } }