PathUtil.java

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package org.jf.util;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;

public class PathUtil {
    private PathUtil() {
    }

    public static File getRelativeFile(File baseFile, File fileToRelativize) throws IOException {
        if (baseFile.isFile()) {
            baseFile = baseFile.getParentFile();
        }

        return new File(getRelativeFileInternal(baseFile.getCanonicalFile(), fileToRelativize.getCanonicalFile()));
    }

    public static String getRelativePath(String basePath, String pathToRelativize) throws IOException {
        File baseFile = new File(basePath);
        if (baseFile.isFile()) {
            baseFile = baseFile.getParentFile();
        }

        return getRelativeFileInternal(baseFile.getCanonicalFile(),
                new File(pathToRelativize).getCanonicalFile());
    }

    static String getRelativeFileInternal(File canonicalBaseFile, File canonicalFileToRelativize) {
        ArrayList<String> basePath = getPathComponents(canonicalBaseFile);
        ArrayList<String> pathToRelativize = getPathComponents(canonicalFileToRelativize);

        //if the roots aren't the same (i.e. different drives on a windows machine), we can't construct a relative
        //path from one to the other, so just return the canonical file
        if (!basePath.get(0).equals(pathToRelativize.get(0))) {
            return canonicalFileToRelativize.getPath();
        }

        int commonDirs;
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

        for (commonDirs=1; commonDirs<basePath.size() && commonDirs<pathToRelativize.size(); commonDirs++) {
            if (!basePath.get(commonDirs).equals(pathToRelativize.get(commonDirs))) {
                break;
            }
        }

        boolean first = true;
        for (int i=commonDirs; i<basePath.size(); i++) {
            if (!first) {
                sb.append(File.separatorChar);
            } else {
                first = false;
            }

            sb.append("..");
        }

        first = true;
        for (int i=commonDirs; i<pathToRelativize.size(); i++) {
            if (first) {
                if (sb.length() != 0) {
                    sb.append(File.separatorChar);
                }
                first = false;
            } else {
                sb.append(File.separatorChar);
            }
            
            sb.append(pathToRelativize.get(i));
        }

        if (sb.length() == 0) {
            return ".";
        }

        return sb.toString();
    }

    private static ArrayList<String> getPathComponents(File file) {
        ArrayList<String> path = new ArrayList<String>();

        while (file != null) {
            File parentFile = file.getParentFile();

            if (parentFile == null) {
                path.add(0, file.getPath());
            } else {
                path.add(0, file.getName());
            }

            file = parentFile;
        }

        return path;
    }
}