Trouble understanding the meaning of the API

[Marcel Ammerlaan]

Hi,

I'm working with the Path API, currently implementing an HTTP 
filesystem. I have some troubles
understanding what the intention of the API is regarding Paths:

If I create a Path like this: Path p = Paths.get("/usr/bin/xset") and I 
do a getName() on it
I get a Path again. The only use of this returned path is, in my 
opinion, the toString()
method. This can also be seen as p.getName().toUri() returns the full 
URI to the original
file, so the Path code is remembering both the full URI and the 
name-part of it.

What is the use-case where getName() actually makes sense, or rephrased, why
doesn't getPath() return a String ?

Regards,

Marcel Ammerlaan.