[jira] Closed: (UIMA-132) Provide better support for filenames with spaces in resource URL

["Adam Lally (JIRA)" <ui...@incubator.apache.org>]

     [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-132?page=all ]

Adam Lally closed UIMA-132.
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    Resolution: Fixed

> Provide better support for filenames with spaces in resource URL
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>
>                 Key: UIMA-132
>                 URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-132
>             Project: UIMA
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Core Java Framework
>            Reporter: Adam Lally
>         Assigned To: Adam Lally
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 2.1
>
>
> The UimaContext.getResourceURL() method is difficult to use correctly.  It is tempting for users to write code such as:
> 	URL url = getContext().getResourceURL(key);
> 	FileReader fr = new FileReader(url.getPath());
> which is not safe since the URL can contain spaces encoded as %20, and the url.getPath() does not automatically decode them.
> We should add the alternative methods and appropriate JavaDoc comments guiding the user toward the appropriate method:
> URI getResourceURI() -- this works better because URI.getPath() *does* do decoding.
> String getResourceFilePath() -- if the URL is a "file:" URL, return its decoded path, otherwise throw an exception (e.g., for an "http" URL)
> Additionally, it would be nice if we supported filenames (without the file: prefix) in the <fileUrl> descriptor element, for example:
> <fileUrl>c:/program files/myproj/myfile.txt</fileUrl>
> Currently this gives a MalformedUrlException, but it would be helpful for the framework to detect that exception and try appending "file:/" to see if that makes a valid URL.

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