在另一个答案中提到的错误是由Apache HttpComponents中的URIUtils解决的

public static URI resolve(URI baseURI,
                          String reference)

对象的URI引用 基本URI。解决bug的方法 java.net.URI ()

Psuedo-code:

使用路径分隔符("/")拆分字符串 通过迭代拆分字符串的结果来找到最大的公共路径(因此在两个示例中，您最终会得到"/var/data"或"/a") 返回“。”+ whicheverPathIsLonger.substring (commonPath.length);

ant有一个带有getRelativePath方法的FileUtils类。我自己还没有尝试过，但是值得一试。

http://javadoc.haefelinger.it/org.apache.ant/1.7.1/org/apache/tools/ant/util/FileUtils.html getRelativePath (java.io.File java.io.File)

酷! !我需要一些类似这样的代码，但用于比较Linux机器上的目录路径。我发现这在父目录为目标的情况下不起作用。

下面是该方法的目录友好版本:

 public static String getRelativePath(String targetPath, String basePath, 
     String pathSeparator) {

 boolean isDir = false;
 {
   File f = new File(targetPath);
   isDir = f.isDirectory();
 }
 //  We need the -1 argument to split to make sure we get a trailing 
 //  "" token if the base ends in the path separator and is therefore
 //  a directory. We require directory paths to end in the path
 //  separator -- otherwise they are indistinguishable from files.
 String[] base = basePath.split(Pattern.quote(pathSeparator), -1);
 String[] target = targetPath.split(Pattern.quote(pathSeparator), 0);

 //  First get all the common elements. Store them as a string,
 //  and also count how many of them there are. 
 String common = "";
 int commonIndex = 0;
 for (int i = 0; i < target.length && i < base.length; i++) {
     if (target[i].equals(base[i])) {
         common += target[i] + pathSeparator;
         commonIndex++;
     }
     else break;
 }

 if (commonIndex == 0)
 {
     //  Whoops -- not even a single common path element. This most
     //  likely indicates differing drive letters, like C: and D:. 
     //  These paths cannot be relativized. Return the target path.
     return targetPath;
     //  This should never happen when all absolute paths
     //  begin with / as in *nix. 
 }

 String relative = "";
 if (base.length == commonIndex) {
     //  Comment this out if you prefer that a relative path not start with ./
     relative = "." + pathSeparator;
 }
 else {
     int numDirsUp = base.length - commonIndex - (isDir?0:1); /* only subtract 1 if it  is a file. */
     //  The number of directories we have to backtrack is the length of 
     //  the base path MINUS the number of common path elements, minus
     //  one because the last element in the path isn't a directory.
     for (int i = 1; i <= (numDirsUp); i++) {
         relative += ".." + pathSeparator;
     }
 }
 //if we are comparing directories then we 
 if (targetPath.length() > common.length()) {
  //it's OK, it isn't a directory
  relative += targetPath.substring(common.length());
 }

 return relative;
}

我假设你有fromPath(一个文件夹的绝对路径)，和toPath(一个文件夹/文件的绝对路径)，你正在寻找一个路径，代表文件/文件夹在toPath作为一个相对路径从fromPath(你当前的工作目录是fromPath)，然后像这样的工作:

public static String getRelativePath(String fromPath, String toPath) {

  // This weirdness is because a separator of '/' messes with String.split()
  String regexCharacter = File.separator;
  if (File.separatorChar == '\\') {
    regexCharacter = "\\\\";
  }

  String[] fromSplit = fromPath.split(regexCharacter);
  String[] toSplit = toPath.split(regexCharacter);

  // Find the common path
  int common = 0;
  while (fromSplit[common].equals(toSplit[common])) {
    common++;
  }

  StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer(".");

  // Work your way up the FROM path to common ground
  for (int i = common; i < fromSplit.length; i++) {
    result.append(File.separatorChar).append("..");
  }

  // Work your way down the TO path
  for (int i = common; i < toSplit.length; i++) {
    result.append(File.separatorChar).append(toSplit[i]);
  }

  return result.toString();
}

通过Dónal的测试，唯一的变化-如果没有公共根，它将返回目标路径(它可能已经是相对的)

import static java.util.Arrays.asList;
import static java.util.Collections.nCopies;
import static org.apache.commons.io.FilenameUtils.normalizeNoEndSeparator;
import static org.apache.commons.io.FilenameUtils.separatorsToUnix;
import static org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils.getCommonPrefix;
import static org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils.isBlank;
import static org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils.isNotEmpty;
import static org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils.join;

import java.io.File;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class ResourceUtils {

    public static String getRelativePath(String targetPath, String basePath, String pathSeparator) {
        File baseFile = new File(basePath);
        if (baseFile.isFile() || !baseFile.exists() && !basePath.endsWith("/") && !basePath.endsWith("\\"))
            basePath = baseFile.getParent();

        String target = separatorsToUnix(normalizeNoEndSeparator(targetPath));
        String base = separatorsToUnix(normalizeNoEndSeparator(basePath));

        String commonPrefix = getCommonPrefix(target, base);
        if (isBlank(commonPrefix))
            return targetPath.replaceAll("/", pathSeparator);

        target = target.replaceFirst(commonPrefix, "");
        base = base.replaceFirst(commonPrefix, "");

        List<String> result = new ArrayList<>();
        if (isNotEmpty(base))
            result.addAll(nCopies(base.split("/").length, ".."));
        result.addAll(asList(target.replaceFirst("^/", "").split("/")));

        return join(result, pathSeparator);
    }
}