Java Resource File getSourceForResource(String s)

Description

Analyze the passed string and determine if it specifies an existing file resource or URL.

License

Open Source License

Return

a valid URL, existing file, or null. No exceptions are thrown.

Declaration

public static Object getSourceForResource(String s) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/**/*  ww  w. j  av  a  2 s . c om*/
 * Copyright 2011 The ARIES Consortium (http://www.ariesonline.org) and
 * www.integratedmodelling.org. 
    
   This file is part of Thinklab.
    
   Thinklab is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
   by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License,
   or (at your option) any later version.
    
   Thinklab is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
   WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
   General Public License for more details.
    
   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
   along with Thinklab.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 */

import java.io.File;

import java.net.MalformedURLException;

import java.net.URL;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Analyze the passed string and determine if it specifies an existing file resource
     * or URL. Return the appropriate object, that must be disambiguated using instanceof.
     * Meant to (inelegantly) solve problems coming from file name encodings in primitive
     * OS (e.g. Windows) that cannot be handled properly in file:// URLs. 
     * @return a valid URL, existing file, or null. No exceptions are thrown.
     */
    public static Object getSourceForResource(String s) {

        File f = new File(s);

        if (f.exists())
            return f;

        URL url = null;
        try {
            url = new URL(s);
        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
        }

        if (url != null)
            return url;

        return null;
    }
}

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