Re: URL context constructor broken?

From:
Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:06:03 -0800
Message-ID:
<qfeqh6pjdsebeumurj12t6c3ma0se7ugf6@4ax.com>
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 05:20:39 -0800, Roedy Green
<see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :

There in a URL constructor that takes an context url and a relative
String. It is supposed to merge them into a new URL. It mostly
works, but fails on this list of real world examples with a
MalformedURLException. I am trying to analyse the location field in an
http redirect and apply it to the original URL.


I created the following SSCCE to explore this, and oddly one of the
URLS that failed is now behaving. I tried both under Java.exe and Jet.

I am going to do more tests.

/*
 * @(#)TestURL.java
 *
 * Summary: Test the two-parameter URL constructor.
 *
 * Copyright: (c) 2010 Roedy Green, Canadian Mind Products,
http://mindprod.com
 *
 * Licence: This software may be copied and used freely for any
purpose but military.
 * http://mindprod.com/contact/nonmil.html
 *
 * Requires: JDK 1.6+
 *
 * Created with: IntelliJ IDEA IDE.
 *
 * Version History:
 * 1.0 2010-12-30 - initial version
 */
package com.mindprod.example;

import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.URISyntaxException;
import java.net.URL;

import static java.lang.System.out;

/**
 * Test the two-parameter URL constructor, and the equivalent
URI.resolve.
 *
 * @author Roedy Green, Canadian Mind Products
 * @version 1.0 2010-12-30 - initial version
 * @since 2010-12-30
 */
public final class TestURL
    {
    // -------------------------- STATIC METHODS
--------------------------

    /**
     * tes the URL constructor with two parms, and the equivalent
URI.resolve.
     *
     * @param originalURLString original context URL
     * @param location partial URL to override the original
     * @param expectedURLString What we expect the merged result to
be.
     * @param notes notes
     */
    private static void test( final String originalURLString,
                              final String location,
                              final String expectedURLString,
                              final String notes )
    {
    testURL( originalURLString, location, expectedURLString, notes );
    testURI( originalURLString, location, expectedURLString, notes );
    }

    /**
     * test URI.resolve.
     *
     * @param originalURIString original context URL
     * @param location partial URL to override the original
     * @param expectedURIString What we expect the merged result to
be.
     * @param notes notes
     */
    private static void testURI( final String originalURIString,
                                 final String location,
                                 final String expectedURIString,
                                 final String notes )
    {
    out.println( "\n>>>testing URI.resolve: ["
                 + originalURIString
                 + "] ["
                 + location
                 + "] " + notes );

    final URI originalURI;
    try
        {
        originalURI = new URI( originalURIString );
        }
    catch ( URISyntaxException e )
        {
        out.println( " original URI failed with URISyntaxException"
);
        return;
        }

    final URI mergedURI = originalURI.resolve( location );
    final String mergedURIString = mergedURI.toString();
    if ( mergedURIString.equals( expectedURIString ) )
        {
        out.println( " OK: [" + mergedURIString + "]" );
        }
    else
        {
        out.println( " unexpected resolved URI: ["
                     + mergedURIString
                     + "] expected URI: ["
                     + expectedURIString
                     + "]" );
        }
    }

    /**
     * testURL the URL constructor with two parms.
     *
     * @param originalURLString original context URL
     * @param location partial URL to override the original
     * @param expectedURLString What we expect the merged result to
be.
     * @param notes notes
     */
    private static void testURL( final String originalURLString,
                                 final String location,
                                 final String expectedURLString,
                                 final String notes )
    {
    out.println( "\n>>>testing URL constructor: ["
                 + originalURLString
                 + "] ["
                 + location
                 + "] "
                 + notes );

    final URL originalURL;
    try
        {
        originalURL = new URL( originalURLString );
        }
    catch ( MalformedURLException e )
        {
        out.println( " original URL failed with
MalformedURLException" );
        return;
        }

    final URL resolvedURL;
    try
        {
        resolvedURL = new URL( originalURL, location );
        }
    catch ( MalformedURLException e )
        {
        out.println( " resolve failed with MalformedURLException" );
        return;
        }
    final String resolvedURLString = resolvedURL.toString();
    if ( resolvedURLString.equals( expectedURLString ) )
        {
        out.println( " OK: [" + resolvedURLString + "]" );
        }
    else
        {
        out.println( " unexpected resolved URL: ["
                     + resolvedURLString
                     + "] expected URL: ["
                     + expectedURLString
                     + "]" );
        }
    }

    // --------------------------- main() method
---------------------------

    /**
     * Test the URL constructor. It is producing what I consider
anomalous results.
     *
     * @param args not used
     */
    public static void main( final String[] args )
    {
    test( "http://mindprod.com/jgloss.html",
            "/jgloss/jgloss.html",
            "http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss.html",
            "common redirect pattern" );

    test( "http://mindprod.com/",
            "/index.html",
            "http://mindprod.com/index.html",
            "common redirect pattern" );

    test( "http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/frutiger/",
            "/fonts/adobe/frutiger/",
            "http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/adobe/frutiger/",
            "real world redirect pattern, trailing slashes" );
    }
    }
--
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http://mindprod.com
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