XML Parser cannot parse Files with spaces in their names

[vc?!]

Here is my jsp code

<%@ page import="java.net.URLDecoder,org.w3c.dom.Document,java.io.*,javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder, javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory" %>
<%

try {
//create a factory instance
DocumentBuilderFactory dbFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();

DocumentBuilder dBuilder = dbFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
File f = new File(URLDecoder.decode("C:\\jboss-3.2.4\\server\\default\\deploy\\cm.ear\\cm.war\\html\\Rports\\Gland 5.xml"));
Document oDocument = dBuilder.parse(f);
}
catch(Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

%>

The above code gives my FileNotFoundException. It does not like the space in the file name. If i rename my file and change the filename in the above code to Gland5.xml everything is fine. Same thing happens if I remove the decode call also. Can someone please help
Thanks

[dannyyates]

Why are you using the URLDecoder? URLs can't have spaces in, and the string you are passing (apart from having a space in) is not a valid URL.

Can't you just construct the File object direct from the String filename?

[vc?!]

Yes, even if i try

File f =
new File("C:\\jboss-3.2.4\\server\\default\\deploy\\cm.ear\\cm.war\\htm\\Rep\\Gland 5.xml");
boolean b = f.exists();
System.out.println("EXISTS" + b);
Document oDocument = dBuilder.parse(f);

I still get a problem. In the above case b = true. But the Xerces parser I believe has a problem.

2004-08-05 13:46:35,422 INFO [STDOUT] EXISTStrue
2004-08-05 13:46:35,432 INFO [STDOUT] java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\jboss-3.2.4\server\default\deploy\cm.ear\cm.war\htm\Rep\Gland%205.xml
2004-08-05 13:46:35,432 INFO [STDOUT] at org.jboss.net.protocol.file.FileURLConnection.connect(FileURLConnection.java:71)
2004-08-05 13:46:35,432 INFO [STDOUT] at org.jboss.net.protocol.file.FileURLConnection.getInputStream(FileURLConnection.java:80)
2004-08-05 13:46:35,432 INFO [STDOUT] at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.setupCurrentEntity(Unknown Source)
2004-08-05 13:46:35,432 INFO [STDOUT] at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLVersionDetector.determineDocVersion(Unknown Source)
2004-08-05 13:46:35,432 INFO [STDOUT] at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
2004-08-05 13:46:35,432 INFO [STDOUT] at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
2004-08-05 13:46:35,432 INFO [STDOUT] at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
2004-08-05 13:46:35,442 INFO [STDOUT] at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser.parse(Unknown Source)
2004-08-05 13:46:35,442 INFO [STDOUT] at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
2004-08-05 13:46:35,442 INFO [STDOUT] at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder.parse(DocumentBuilder.java:161)


The problem goes away if i have a file without any spaces in it

[dannyyates]

Interesting. This does appear to be a bug in your parser. Have you tried the parse(InputStream) method?

[andy.hwu]

2004-08-05 13:46:35,432 INFO [STDOUT] java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\jboss-3.2.4\server\default\deploy\cm.ear\cm.war\htm\Rep\Gland%205.xml
2004-08-05 13:46:35,432 INFO [STDOUT] at org.jboss.net.protocol.file.FileURLConnection.connect(FileURLConnection.java:71)
2004-08-05 13:46:35,432 INFO [STDOUT] at org.jboss.net.protocol.file.FileURLConnection.getInputStream(FileURLConnection.java:80)
2004-08-05 13:46:35,432 INFO [STDOUT] at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.setupCurrentEntity(Unknown Source)
2004-08-05 13:46:35,432 INFO [STDOUT] at

Here is part of XMLEntityManager.java code in XML Parser,

URL location = new URL(expandedSystemId);
URLConnection connect = location.openConnection();
stream = connect.getInputStream();

XML Parser actually passes the "correct encoded URI" string - expandedSystemId - to URL constructor. In Jboss's FileURLConnection.java, it does not properly decode this input URI string. That is why java.io.FileNotFoundException occurs when connect.getInputStream(); is called. I think it should be fixed in jboss-common.jar instead of XML Parser.