Java Class Path getPath(String name, Class relativeTo)

Description

get Path

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static String getPath(String name, Class<?> relativeTo) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2008 The University of York.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 * /*  w w  w . ja v  a  2  s  .  co m*/
 * Contributors:
 *     Dimitrios Kolovos - initial API and implementation
 ******************************************************************************/

import java.io.File;

import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.net.URLDecoder;

public class Main {
    public static String getPath(String name, Class<?> relativeTo) {
        return getFile(name, relativeTo).getAbsolutePath();
    }

    public static String getAbsolutePath(String basePath, String relativePath) {
        File file = new File(relativePath);
        if (!file.isAbsolute()) {
            file = new File(basePath, relativePath);
        }
        return file.getAbsolutePath();
    }

    public static File getFile(String name, Class<?> relativeTo) {
        try {
            final File clazz = new File(URLDecoder
                    .decode(relativeTo.getResource(relativeTo.getSimpleName() + ".class").getFile(), "UTF-8"));

            return new File(clazz.getParentFile(), name);

        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException(name + " could not be located relative to " + relativeTo);
        }
    }
}

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