Java Utililty Methods Path to URL

if ("file".equalsIgnoreCase(repositoryURL.getProtocol())) {
    File folder = new File(repositoryURL.getFile());
    try {
        return (folder.getCanonicalPath());
    } catch (IOException e) {
        return (folder.getAbsolutePath());
} else {
...

return url.getPath() + (url.getQuery() == null ? "" : "?" + url.getQuery());

return (new File(URLDecoder.decode(url.getPath(), "UTF-8")).getAbsolutePath() + File.separator);

StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder(80);
String tmp;
if ((tmp = url.getPath()) != null) {
    if (!tmp.startsWith("/")) {
        buf.append("/");
    buf.append(tmp);
if ((tmp = url.getQuery()) != null) {
    buf.append("?");
    buf.append(tmp);
if ((tmp = url.getRef()) != null) {
    buf.append("#");
    buf.append(tmp);
return buf.toString();

String path = null;
try {
    URL url = new URL(uri);
    path = url.getPath();
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
    String urn = fixURN(uri);
    path = getURLPathFromURN(urn);
return path;

String path = null;
URI uri = new java.net.URI(urn);
path = urn.replaceAll("[:]", "/");
return path;

ArrayList<URL> urls = new ArrayList<URL>();
for (String p : paths) {
    urls.add(getURL(p));
return urls.toArray(new URL[urls.size()]);

URL urls[] = new URL[thePaths.length];
for (int i = 0; i < thePaths.length; i++)
    urls[i] = getURL(thePaths[i]);
return urls;

List<URL> urls = new ArrayList<>();
try {
    Enumeration<URL> e = ClassLoader.getSystemResources(path);
    while (e.hasMoreElements()) {
        urls.add(e.nextElement());
} catch (IOException e) {
return urls;

return urlPath;