java.nio.file.InvalidPathException 当路径包含冒号 (:)

Question

I need to construct a path which contains colon (:). Actually the path is not a folder/directory in windows/linux. It is just a path of JCR repo. Below code gives InvalidPathException when the path contains colon

import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;

public class TestCLass {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        final Path path = Paths.get("com", "repo:access","resource");
        //final Path path = Paths.get("com", "repoaccess","resource"); //Output - com/repoaccess/resource
        System.out.println(path);
    }
}

Exception

Exception in thread "main" java.nio.file.InvalidPathException: Illegal char <:> at index 8: com\repo:access\resource
    at sun.nio.fs.WindowsPathParser.normalize(WindowsPathParser.java:182)
    at sun.nio.fs.WindowsPathParser.parse(WindowsPathParser.java:153)
    at sun.nio.fs.WindowsPathParser.parse(WindowsPathParser.java:77)
    at sun.nio.fs.WindowsPath.parse(WindowsPath.java:94)
    at sun.nio.fs.WindowsFileSystem.getPath(WindowsFileSystem.java:255)
    at java.nio.file.Paths.get(Paths.java:84)

Is there any API to access colon(:) and any other special character?

Answer 1

As far as I know, neither Windows nor Linux allow ":" to be put in a file name. That's why Java throws InvalidPathException for such a path/file name. There's no API to work around a restriction imposed by the file system.