Roger,
You've run into the standard naming ambiguity problem of "when is a path
a search path, with elements separated by File.pathSeparator (e.g. class
path, source path), and when is it a file path, with elements separated
by File.separator (e.g. a nio.file.Path identifying a file or directory)?"
This shows up most obviously in the method confusingly named "pathToPaths".
In other contexts (javac, jtreg, etc) I've tried to use the term "search
path" to describe the string that is a sequence of elements separated by
File.pathSeparator.
-- Jon
On 9/10/18 11:16 AM, Roger Riggs wrote:
Please review the API and implementation of an API to parse Path strings.
Two methods are added to java.nio.file.Paths to parse a string using
the path separator delimiter
and return either List<String> or List<Path>. Empty path elements are
ignored.
For compatibility with current URLClassPath behavior the internal
implementation handles
replacement of empty paths.
Webrev:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rriggs/webrev-8207690_parsing_api_for_classpath_and_similar_path_strings/
CSR:
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8208208
Thanks, Roger
