Escape result of FileLocator.resolve(url)

Question

The method `FileLocator.resolve(url)` can be used to translate an address `bundleentry://something/somewhere/x.txt` to a proper file URL for `/mnt/foo/somewhere/x.txt`. However, which is also documented at https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=145096, the URL is not escaped. As an example, if the Eclipse installation containing the referenced bundle is in a directory containing a space, the URL returned by `FileLocator.resolve` still contains the space and calling `url.toURI()` fails because of that. - How can I manually escape all necessary characters in the URL? - How can I get a `File` object based on a path relative to the current bundle? As reference, here is the code that fails when trying to find the directory `dir` inside my plugin's `.jar` file if that file is in a directory containing a space: ``` final IPath pathOfExampleProject = new Path("dir"); final Bundle bundle = Platform.getBundle(AproveIDs.PLUGIN_ID); final URL url = FileLocator.find(bundle, pathOfExamplePro…

Accepted Answer

I just found this code:

http://code.google.com/p/dart/source/browse/branches/bleeding_edge/dart/editor/tools/plugins/com.google.dart.tools.core/src/com/google/dart/tools/core/internal/model/BundledSystemLibrary.java?r=2057

The relevant lines indeed help:

```
// We need to use the 3-arg constructor of URI in order to properly escape file system chars.
URI resolvedUri = new URI(resolvedUrl.getProtocol(), resolvedUrl.getPath(), null);
```

Escape result of FileLocator.resolve(url)

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