[Geotools-devel] [jira] Created: (GEOT-3300) DataUtilities.urlToFile doesn't handle network paths correctly

[Patrick N. (JIRA) <ji...@co...>]

DataUtilities.urlToFile doesn't handle network paths correctly
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                 Key: GEOT-3300
                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-3300
             Project: GeoTools
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: data
    Affects Versions: 2.6.5
            Reporter: Patrick Nagelschmidt
            Priority: Minor


Currently in uDig you can open a map from a windows network share (samba) without problems, but if you save and re-open the project again the path is treated as local and the file not found. The culprit seems to be {{org.geotools.data.DataUtilities.urlToFile}}.

If you create an URL object containing a windows network share like this
{noformat}
new URL("file", "////oehhwsfs09", "/some/path/on/the/server/filename.nds");
{noformat}
and pass it to {{org.geotools.data.DataUtilities.urlToFile(URL)}}, as it's done automatically if e.g. uDig saves a project, the {{URL}} object will be transformed into a plain string and that will be passed to the {{File}} constructor. This works, i.e. the file can be opened, but from that point on the file's network nature is lost, which means the filesystem normalizer of {{Java.io.File}} will remove the leading double slashes and threat the file as local. Imo you should call {{Java.io.File(URI)}} instead of {{Java.io.File(String)}} at the end of {{urlToFile}} to make sure a set authority field in the {{URL}} is preserved.

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