// XXX: confusing, one may think that this modifies the path
// being appended to (like Python's list.append()).
public Path append(Path tail) {
// optimize some easy cases
if (tail == null || tail.segmentCount() == 0) {
return this;
}
if (isEmpty()) {
return tail.makeRelative();
}
if (isRoot()) {
return tail.makeAbsolute();
}
// concatenate the two segment arrays
int myLen = segments.length;
int tailLen = tail.segmentCount();
String[] newSegments = new String[myLen + tailLen];
System.arraycopy(segments, 0, newSegments, 0, myLen);
for (int i = 0; i < tailLen; i++) {
newSegments[myLen + i] = tail.segment(i);
}
// use my leading separators and the tail's trailing separator
Path result =
new Path(
newSegments,
(separators & HAS_LEADING) | (tail.hasTrailingSeparator() ? HAS_TRAILING : 0));
String tailFirstSegment = newSegments[myLen];
if (tailFirstSegment.equals("..")
|| tailFirstSegment.equals(".")) { // $NON-NLS-1$ //$NON-NLS-2$
result.canonicalize();
}
return result;
}
public Path makeAbsolute() {
if (isAbsolute()) {
return this;
}
Path result = new Path(segments, separators | HAS_LEADING);
// may need canonicalizing if it has leading ".." or "." segments
if (result.segmentCount() > 0) {
String first = result.segment(0);
if (first.equals("..") || first.equals(".")) { // $NON-NLS-1$ //$NON-NLS-2$
result.canonicalize();
}
}
return result;
}