/* RelativePathUtilities.m Implementations of extensions to the NSString class to provide relative path handling. Authors: Matt Rice Saso Kiselkov This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA */ #import "RelativePathUtilities.h" #import #import #import @implementation NSString (RelativePathUtilities) /** * Builds a relative path from the path represented by the * receiver to the path in `otherPath'. * * @return The resulting relative path. */ - (NSString *) stringByConstructingRelativePathTo: (NSString *) otherPath { NSString *prefix = [self commonPrefixWithString: otherPath options: NSLiteralSearch]; NSRange rng1 = [otherPath rangeOfString: prefix]; NSRange rng2 = [self rangeOfString: prefix]; NSString *newPath = @""; NSString *tmp1; NSString *tmp2; NSArray *arr2; int i, c; tmp1 = [otherPath substringFromIndex: rng1.location + rng1.length]; tmp2 = [self substringFromIndex: rng2.location + rng2.length]; arr2 = [tmp2 pathComponents]; for (i = 0, c = [arr2 count]; i < c; i++) { newPath = [newPath stringByAppendingPathComponent: @".."]; } if ([tmp1 isAbsolutePath]) { tmp1 = [@"." stringByAppendingString: tmp1]; } return [newPath stringByAppendingPathComponent: tmp1]; } /** * Builds a minimalized path which results when the path * represented by the receiver and `otherPath' are concatenated. * For example, let the receiver be @"/foo/bar" and * otherPath = @"../foobar". Then the returned result would be * @"/foo/foobar". In case `otherPath' is an absolute path, this * method simply returns `otherPath'. * * @return The concatenated and minimized result path. */ - (NSString *) stringByConcatenatingWithPath: (NSString *) otherPath { if ([otherPath isAbsolutePath]) { return otherPath; } else { BOOL isAbsolute = [self isAbsolutePath]; NSMutableArray * myPathComponents = [[[self pathComponents] mutableCopy] autorelease]; NSArray * otherPathComponents = [otherPath pathComponents]; NSEnumerator * e = [otherPathComponents objectEnumerator]; NSString * pathComponent; while ((pathComponent = [e nextObject]) != nil) { if ([pathComponent isEqualToString: @".."]) { int numberOfComponents = [myPathComponents count]; /* if we've run out of path components to pop away, then we may safely return the rest of the relative path given as the argument */ if (numberOfComponents == 0) { do { [myPathComponents addObject: pathComponent]; } while ((pathComponent = [e nextObject]) != nil); return [NSString pathWithComponents: myPathComponents]; } /* trouble - we are an absolute path, but the argument relative path wants ascend above our root. How do we best handle this case? For now, we simply ignore further ".." components, behaving exactly like a UNIX system behaves when somebody tries to ascend above the root of the VFS. */ else if (numberOfComponents == 1 && isAbsolute == YES) { continue; } else { [myPathComponents removeLastObject]; } } else { [myPathComponents addObject: pathComponent]; } } // this is to make +[NSString pathWithComponents:] construct // an absolute path if necessary if (isAbsolute == YES) { [myPathComponents replaceObjectAtIndex: 0 withObject: @""]; } return [NSString pathWithComponents: myPathComponents]; } } @end