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" <strub...@yahoo.de> 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 > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
