[fs] Accept Paths.get("/c:/x") on Windows?

[Wang Weijun]

> On Dec 30, 2014, at 16:00, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> On 30/12/2014 04:01, Weijun Wang wrote:
>> new File("/c:/x") return c:\x, but Paths.get() throws an exception
>> 
>> java.nio.file.InvalidPathException: Illegal char <:> at index 2: /c:/x
>>        at sun.nio.fs.WindowsPathParser.normalize(WindowsPathParser.java:182)
>>        at sun.nio.fs.WindowsPathParser.parse(WindowsPathParser.java:153)
>>        at sun.nio.fs.WindowsPathParser.parse(WindowsPathParser.java:77)
>>        at sun.nio.fs.WindowsPath.parse(WindowsPath.java:94)
>>        at sun.nio.fs.WindowsFileSystem.getPath(WindowsFileSystem.java:255)
>>        at java.nio.file.Paths.get(Paths.java:84)
>> 
>> Is this something that can be fixed?
>> 
>> I am asking this because FileURLConnection.getPermission() uses url.getPath() as a file name, and the url was like file:/c:/x.
> InvalidPathException looks correct as the file path is malformed.
> 
> In general then you can't use a URL path as file path.

Is Paths.get(url.toURI()) designed for this?

--Max