Symbol ``['' and a java.net.URI.create method

[Alan Bateman]

Yep, it sounds like it might be doing "URI.create(file)" rather than 
"new File(file).toURI()".

-Alan.

Christopher Hegarty - Sun Microsystems Ireland wrote:
> The square bracket characters ('[' and ']') are reserved characters in 
> a URI. If they are to be used then they need to percent encoded. That 
> is, '[' is percent encoded to be %5B.
>
> The single argument java.net.URI constructor requires any illegal 
> characters in its argument to be quoted and preserves any escaped 
> octets and other characters that are present. The static create method 
> simply invokes the URI(String) constructor, with some extra Exception 
> handling. Therefore any reserved characters need to be percent encoded 
> before passing the String as an argument.
>
> You can look at the java.net.URI class description to give you a 
> better understanding of how this encoding works.
>
> -Chris.
>
> Christopher Hegarty - Sun Microsystems Ireland wrote:
>> Since this is a question about java.net.URI I am moving this question 
>> to the OpenJDK Net Dev alias.
>>
>> I will try to answer it there.
>>
>> -Chris.
>>
>> Michal Vyskocil wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm working on adopting of jpackage project to openSUSE and got a 
>>> problem with build of maven. The jpackage's folks have a script 
>>> build-jar-repository, which symlinks the jar files in 
>>> /usr/share/java to defined dir.
>>>
>>> My problem is, that the script produces a links in this form - 
>>> /foo/bar/[ant].jar which later causes an IllegalArgumentException, 
>>> because a java.net.URI.create dissallows ``[]'' in URI. The response 
>>> from jpackage is, that java.net.URI.create has a bug, because symbol 
>>> ``['' is valid in a Unix path.
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm testing several JRE implementations, but only gcj allows the 
>>> ``[]'' in URI, other ones not.
>>>
>>> What do you think about? Is this really a bug in handling of unix 
>>> filenames?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Michal Vyskocil