I'm parsing a base file at this location:
/Users/haddad/development/fspc/content/2017.dev/src/agency/individual/integration/src/forms/print.xml
And from that file, I parse out:
../../../../include/masking.xml
So that relative path is from the context from the file I parsed it out from (base file)
How can I constuct a file object from that relative path so I can read it's contents?
Since you tagged nio
, the Path
class makes this easy. You simply call resolveSibling()
and normalize()
.
String main = "/Users/haddad/development/fspc/content/2017.dev/src/agency/individual/integration/src/forms/print.xml";
String ref = "../../../../include/masking.xml";
System.out.println(Paths.get(main));
System.out.println(Paths.get(main).resolveSibling(ref));
System.out.println(Paths.get(main).resolveSibling(ref).normalize());
Or:
System.out.println(Paths.get(main));
System.out.println(Paths.get(main, ref));
System.out.println(Paths.get(main, ref).normalize());
Output
\Users\haddad\development\fspc\content\2017.dev\src\agency\individual\integration\src\forms\print.xml
\Users\haddad\development\fspc\content\2017.dev\src\agency\individual\integration\src\forms\..\..\..\..\include\masking.xml
\Users\haddad\development\fspc\content\2017.dev\src\agency\include\masking.xml
Note: I ran this on a Window machine, so I of course got backslashes
If you prefer the old File
object, you use the two-argument constructor, and call getCanonicalFile()
.
System.out.println(new File(main));
System.out.println(new File(main, ref));
System.out.println(new File(main, ref).getCanonicalFile());
Output
\Users\haddad\development\fspc\content\2017.dev\src\agency\individual\integration\src\forms\print.xml
\Users\haddad\development\fspc\content\2017.dev\src\agency\individual\integration\src\forms\print.xml\..\..\..\..\include\masking.xml
C:\Users\haddad\development\fspc\content\2017.dev\src\agency\individual\include\masking.xml