java path类,使用Path类在Java中的两个路径之间创建路径

What does exactly mean this sentence from this oracle java tutorial:

A relative path cannot be constructed if only one of the paths

includes a root element. If both paths include a root element, the

capability to construct a relative path is system dependent.

With "system dipendent" do they mean only that if an element contains a root it will work only in the platform specific syntax that has been written?

I guess it is the only thing they mean.

Are there any other ways of reading that?

for example :

public class AnotherOnePathTheDust {

public static void main (String []args)

{

Path p1 = Paths.get("home");

Path p3 = Paths.get("home/sally/bar"); //with "/home/sally/bar" i would get an exception.

// Result is sally/bar

Path p1_to_p3 = p1.relativize(p3);

// Result is ../..

Path p3_to_p1 = p3.relativize(p1);

System.out.println(p3_to_p1); }

}

The exception that I get by using "/home/sally/bar" instead of "home/sally/bar" (without root) is this one:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: 'other' is different type of Path

Why does it not work? what is the conflict with the system that they mean?

解决方案

Because p1 and p3 has different root.

If you use use "/home/sally/bar" instead of "home/sally/bar" for p3, then p3.getRoot() will return / but p1.getRoot() is null.

// can only relativize paths of the same type

if (this.type != other.type)

throw new IllegalArgumentException("'other' is different type of Path");