I just found that File.toURL() is deprecated (in Java 6):
> @deprecated This method does not automatically escape characters that
> * are illegal in URLs. It is recommended that new code convert an
> * abstract pathname into a URL by first converting it into a URI,
> via the
> * [EMAIL PROTECTED] #toURI() toURI} method, and then converting the URI
> into
> a URL
> * via the [EMAIL PROTECTED] java.net.URI#toURL() URI.toURL} method.
I wonder if this technique, file.toURI().toURL(), behaves a bit better
then what you are hacking around?
Jody
> I am doing testing against trying to view/edit/manipulate files that reside
> on a windows network share, and I have run into several instances across both
> uDig and GeoTools where java.net.URLs are (improperly?) converted into
> java.io.Files. The usual method of doing this is to just use URL.getPath:
>
> File f = new File(url.getPath());
>
> But if URL equals "file://E:/somedir/foo.tif", then File f is associated with
> the file "\somedir\foo.tif". The drive/network share information is lost.
>
> The authority property contains this information:
>
> String auth = url.getAuthority();
> if (auth != null && !auth.equals("")) {
> f = new File("//"+auth+url.getPath());
> } else {
> f = new File(url.getPath());
> }
>
> The variable 'auth' equals "E:" in this case, or "fooServer" if it is a
> network share. In uDig I have added a utility method to the URLUtils class.
> If someone wants this in GeoTools, tell me where to put it and I will.
>
> It is a fair assumption that this happens a fair amount in our code, and I
> don't have time to go through the code base to check for instances of
> URL.getPath(), so I would just like to bring it to everyone's attention to
> keep an eye out for this.
>
> Of course, if anyone has any better suggestions, please let me know. But for
> now I am fixing it in the image module, and I may fix it in shapefile next.
>
> Richard
>
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