Get file name from URL

Question

In Java, given a java.net.URL or a String in the form of http://www.example.com/some/path/to/a/file.xml , what is the easiest way to g

Answer 1

String fileName = url.substring( url.lastIndexOf('/')+1, url.length() );

String fileNameWithoutExtn = fileName.substring(0, fileName.lastIndexOf('.'));

Answer 2

This should about cut it (i'll leave the error handling to you):

int slashIndex = url.lastIndexOf('/');
int dotIndex = url.lastIndexOf('.', slashIndex);
String filenameWithoutExtension;
if (dotIndex == -1) {
  filenameWithoutExtension = url.substring(slashIndex + 1);
} else {
  filenameWithoutExtension = url.substring(slashIndex + 1, dotIndex);
}

Answer 3

public String getFileNameWithoutExtension(URL url) {
    String path = url.getPath();

    if (StringUtils.isBlank(path)) {
        return null;
    }
    if (StringUtils.endsWith(path, "/")) {
        //is a directory ..
        return null;
    }

    File file = new File(url.getPath());
    String fileNameWithExt = file.getName();

    int sepPosition = fileNameWithExt.lastIndexOf(".");
    String fileNameWithOutExt = null;
    if (sepPosition >= 0) {
        fileNameWithOutExt = fileNameWithExt.substring(0,sepPosition);
    }else{
        fileNameWithOutExt = fileNameWithExt;
    }

    return fileNameWithOutExt;
}

Answer 4

String fileName = url.substring(url.lastIndexOf('/') + 1);

Answer 5

One liner:

new File(uri.getPath).getName

Complete code (in a scala REPL):

import java.io.File
import java.net.URI

val uri = new URI("http://example.org/file.txt?whatever")

new File(uri.getPath).getName
res18: String = file.txt

Note: URI#gePath is already intelligent enough to strip off query parameters and the protocol's scheme. Examples:

new URI("http://example.org/hey/file.txt?whatever").getPath
res20: String = /hey/file.txt

new URI("hdfs:///hey/file.txt").getPath
res21: String = /hey/file.txt

new URI("file:///hey/file.txt").getPath
res22: String = /hey/file.txt

Answer 6

Here is the simplest way to do it in Android. I know it will not work in Java but It may help Android application developer.

import android.webkit.URLUtil;

public String getFileNameFromURL(String url) {
    String fileNameWithExtension = null;
    String fileNameWithoutExtension = null;
    if (URLUtil.isValidUrl(url)) {
        fileNameWithExtension = URLUtil.guessFileName(url, null, null);
        if (fileNameWithExtension != null && !fileNameWithExtension.isEmpty()) {
            String[] f = fileNameWithExtension.split(".");
            if (f != null & f.length > 1) {
                fileNameWithoutExtension = f[0];
            }
        }
    }
    return fileNameWithoutExtension;
}