Need for normalization? (Re: svn commit: r980880 - in /cxf/trunk/tools/common/src)

[Glen Mazza]

May I ask why this normalization is helpful (instead of just using the 
intended file path to being with)?
Does this affect just internal CXF use or external usage by users of 
CXF?  If the latter, the potential problem I see is that not all URI's 
are file paths and, even if they were, I'm not sure that you can safely 
normalize in a platform-independent manner.
Glene...@apache.org wrote:
Author: ema
Date: Fri Jul 30 16:07:40 2010
New Revision: 980880

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=980880&view=rev
Log:
[CXF-2918]:normalize the url like file:/home/cxf/org/apache/../../cxf in 
URIParserUtil.getAbsoluteURL()

Modified:
    
cxf/trunk/tools/common/src/main/java/org/apache/cxf/tools/util/URIParserUtil.java
    
cxf/trunk/tools/common/src/test/java/org/apache/cxf/tools/util/URIParserUtilTest.java

Modified: 
cxf/trunk/tools/common/src/main/java/org/apache/cxf/tools/util/URIParserUtil.java
URL: 
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/cxf/trunk/tools/common/src/main/java/org/apache/cxf/tools/util/URIParserUtil.java?rev=980880&r1=980879&r2=980880&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- 
cxf/trunk/tools/common/src/main/java/org/apache/cxf/tools/util/URIParserUtil.java
 (original)
+++ 
cxf/trunk/tools/common/src/main/java/org/apache/cxf/tools/util/URIParserUtil.java
 Fri Jul 30 16:07:40 2010
@@ -248,18 +248,15 @@ public final class URIParserUtil {
     }
     public static String normalize(final String uri) {
         URL url = null;
+        String result = null;
         try {
             url = new URL(uri);
-            return escapeChars(url.toString().replace("\\", "/"));
+            result = escapeChars(url.toURI().normalize().toString().replace("\\", 
"/"));