[armedbear-devel] Idiomatic conversion of file: URLs to file-paths

Hi Mark,

To get back to our earlier (irc) discussion of converting URL.getPath() / URI.getPath() to (Windows) pathnames:

I found this page: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/2007/04/25/how-convert-javaneturl-javaiofile

which contains code on how to do the conversion. I just checked on Windows it even strips the leading '/' which you get from URL.getPath().

My reaction to these findings is to propose a new static function to be added to the Utilities class, which should be used to convert file:/ urls to paths. Our code should then be searched for invocations of URL/URI.getPath() on file urls, changing it to the utility function.

Regards,

Erik.