In that environment, does new URL("wsjar:///...") succeed?
On 6/6/12 9:22 PM, "Mark Struberg" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Yes, we had this pretty commonly in OWB. You might get funny strings like
>"wsjar:///..." as URL.toExternalForm() :(
>Basically all Systems which do not use the native file system but an own
>virtual files system implementation for storing apps, like JBossAS,
>WebLogic, WebSphere, etc
>
>For storing URLs in a map you need to do special tricks :(
>
>
>LieGrue,
>strub
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Honton, Charles" <[email protected]>
>> To: Commons Developers List <[email protected]>; Mark Struberg
>><[email protected]>
>> Cc:
>> Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2012 1:59 AM
>> Subject: Re: [classscan] new URL(xxx) and it's problems
>>
>>
>> I did originally use URLs. Due to the ugliness Mark alludes to, I moved
>> to URIs. The biggest performance consideration was using a URL as a Key
>> to a map. That completely blew up performance.
>>
>> Does anyone have a concrete example of !url.equals(new
>> URL(url.toExternalForm()) ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chas
>>
>>
>> On 6/6/12 1:13 PM, "Mark Struberg" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I've now looked through both impls and both share some very similar API
>>> classes obviously (MetaClass, MetaField, etc). Details are different,
>>>but
>>> I think we can extract a common API.
>>>
>>> One thing I figured while looking at the code is that some parts are
>>>full
>>> with URI handling instead of URL.
>>> The problem with this is that an URI#toURL() internally does a new
>>> URL(uri.toString());
>>>
>>>
>>> Now the problem hereby is that on some systems a
>>>
>>>
>>> URL u = someResource.getURL();
>>> URL u2 = new URL(u.toExternalForm());
>>>
>>> doesn't work. Those methods are just not reflexive on some systems.
>>>
>>>
>>> This happens often if VFS are involved (e.g. on JBossAS4,5,6, WebLogic,
>>> etc) and even in general on some OS (Solaris 10.5/Sparc).
>>>
>>>
>>> The only way I know to cope with it is to _not_ only store the String
>>> representation but the URL itself. This sucks big times as well,
>>>because
>>> URL is a class which escaped from hell - doing DNS lookup on equals()
>>>and
>>> other weird things *shudder* - but I don't know of any better way :(
>>>
>>> Any tip is welcome.
>>>
>>> LieGrue,
>>> strub
>>>
>>>
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