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package java.net;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.io.InvalidObjectException;

import java.io.ObjectInputStream;

import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;

import java.io.Serializable;

import java.nio.ByteBuffer;

import java.nio.CharBuffer;

import java.nio.charset.CharsetDecoder;

import java.nio.charset.CharsetEncoder;

import java.nio.charset.CoderResult;

import java.nio.charset.CodingErrorAction;

import java.nio.charset.CharacterCodingException;

import java.text.Normalizer;

import sun.nio.cs.ThreadLocalCoders;

import java.lang.Character;             // for javadoc

import java.lang.NullPointerException;  // for javadoc

/**

 * Represents a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) reference.

 *

 * <p> Aside from some minor deviations noted below, an instance of this

 * class represents a URI reference as defined by

 * <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt"><i>RFC&nbsp;2396: Uniform

 * Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax</i></a>, amended by <a

 * href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2732.txt"><i>RFC&nbsp;2732: Format for

 * Literal IPv6 Addresses in URLs</i></a>. The Literal IPv6 address format

 * also supports scope_ids. The syntax and usage of scope_ids is described

 * <a href="Inet6Address.html#scoped">here</a>.

 * This class provides constructors for creating URI instances from

 * their components or by parsing their string forms, methods for accessing the

 * various components of an instance, and methods for normalizing, resolving,

 * and relativizing URI instances.  Instances of this class are immutable.

 *

 *

 * <h3> URI syntax and components </h3>

 *

 * At the highest level a URI reference (hereinafter simply "URI") in string

 * form has the syntax

 *

 * <blockquote>

 * [<i>scheme</i><b>{@code :}</b>]<i>scheme-specific-part</i>[<b>{@code #}</b><i>fragment</i>]

 * </blockquote>

 *

 * where square brackets [...] delineate optional components and the characters

 * <b>{@code :}</b> and <b>{@code #}</b> stand for themselves.

 *

 * <p> An <i>absolute</i> URI specifies a scheme; a URI that is not absolute is

 * said to be <i>relative</i>.  URIs are also classified according to whether

 * they are <i>opaque</i> or <i>hierarchical</i>.

 *

 * <p> An <i>opaque</i> URI is an absolute URI whose scheme-specific part does

 * not begin with a slash character ({@code '/'}).  Opaque URIs are not

 * subject to further parsing.  Some examples of opaque URIs are:

 *

 * <blockquote><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 summary="layout">

 * <tr><td>{@code mailto:java-net@java.sun.com}<td></tr>

 * <tr><td>{@code news:comp.lang.java}<td></tr>

 * <tr><td>{@code urn:isbn:096139210x}</td></tr>

 * </table></blockquote>

 *

 * <p> A <i>hierarchical</i> URI is either an absolute URI whose

 * scheme-specific part begins with a slash character, or a relative URI, that

 * is, a URI that does not specify a scheme.  Some examples of hierarchical

 * URIs are:

 *

 * <blockquote>

 * {@code http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/}<br>

 * {@code docs/guide/collections/designfaq.html#28}<br>

 * {@code ../../../demo/jfc/SwingSet2/src/SwingSet2.java}<br>

 * {@code file:///~/calendar}

 * </blockquote>

 *

 * <p> A hierarchical URI is subject to further parsing according to the syntax

 *

 * <blockquote>

 * [<i>scheme</i><b>{@code :}</b>][<b>{@code //}</b><i>authority</i>][<i>path</i>][<b>{@code ?}</b><i>query</i>][<b>{@code #}</b><i>fragment</i>]

 * </blockquote>

 *

 * where the characters <b>{@code :}</b>, <b>{@code /}</b>,

 * <b>{@code ?}</b>, and <b>{@code #}</b> stand for themselves.  The

 * scheme-specific part of a hierarchical URI consists of the characters

 * between the scheme and fragment components.

 *

 * <p> The authority component of a hierarchical URI is, if specified, either

 * <i>server-based</i> or <i>registry-based</i>.  A server-based authority

 * parses according to the familiar syntax

 *

 * <blockquote>

 * [<i>user-info</i><b>{@code @}</b>]<i>host</i>[<b>{@code :}</b><i>port</i>]

 * </blockquote>

 *

 * where the characters <b>{@code @}</b> and <b>{@code :}</b> stand for

 * themselves.  Nearly all URI schemes currently in use are server-based.  An

 * authority component that does not parse in this way is considered to be

 * registry-based.

 *

 * <p> The path component of a hierarchical URI is itself said to be absolute

 * if it begins with a slash character ({@code '/'}); otherwise it is

 * relative.  The path of a hierarchical URI that is either absolute or

 * specifies an authority is always absolute.

 *

 * <p> All told, then, a URI instance has the following nine components:

 *

 * <blockquote><table summary="Describes the components of a URI:scheme,scheme-specific-part,authority,user-info,host,port,path,query,fragment">

 * <tr><th><i>Component</i></th><th><i>Type</i></th></tr>

 * <tr><td>scheme</td><td>{@code String}</td></tr>

 * <tr><td>scheme-specific-part&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>{@code String}</td></tr>

 * <tr><td>authority</td><td>{@code String}</td></tr>

 * <tr><td>user-info</td><td>{@code String}</td></tr>

 * <tr><td>host</td><td>{@code String}</td></tr>

 * <tr><td>port</td><td>{@code int}</td></tr>

 * <tr><td>path</td><td>{@code String}</td></tr>

 * <tr><td>query</td><td>{@code String}</td></tr>

 * <tr><td>fragment</td><td>{@code String}</td></tr>

 * </table></blockquote>

 *

 * In a given instance any particular component is either <i>undefined</i> or

 * <i>defined</i> with a distinct value.  Undefined string components are

 * represented by {@code null}, while undefined integer components are

 * represented by {@code -1}.  A string component may be defined to have the

 * empty string as its value; this is not equivalent to that component being

 * undefined.

 *

 * <p> Whether a particular component is or is not defined in an instance

 * depends upon the type of the URI being represented.  An absolute URI has a

 * scheme component.  An opaque URI has a scheme, a scheme-specific part, and

 * possibly a fragment, but has no other components.  A hierarchical URI always

 * has a path (though it may be empty) and a scheme-specific-part (which at

 * least contains the path), and may have any of the other components.  If the

 * authority component is present and is server-based then the host component

 * will be defined and the user-information and port components may be defined.

 *

 *

 * <h4> Operations on URI instances </h4>

 *

 * The key operations supported by this class are those of

 * <i>normalization</i>, <i>resolution</i>, and <i>relativization</i>.

 *

 * <p> <i>Normalization</i> is the process of removing unnecessary {@code "."}

 * and {@code ".."} segments from the path component of a hierarchical URI.

 * Each {@code "."} segment is simply removed.  A {@code ".."} segment is

 * removed only if it is preceded by a non-{@code ".."} segment.

 * Normalization has no effect upon opaque URIs.

 *

 * <p> <i>Resolution</i> is the process of resolving one URI against another,

 * <i>base</i> URI.  The resulting URI is constructed from components of both

 * URIs in the manner specified by RFC 2396, taking components from the

 * base URI for those not specified in the original.  For hierarchical URIs,

 * the path of the original is resolved against the path of the base and then

 * normalized.  The result, for example, of resolving

 *

 * <blockquote>

 * {@code docs/guide/collections/designfaq.html#28}

 *             

 *     (1)

 * </blockquote>

 *

 * against the base URI {@code http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/} is the result

 * URI

 *

 * <blockquote>

 * {@code https://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.3/docs/guide/collections/designfaq.html#28}

 * </blockquote>

 *

 * Resolving the relative URI

 *

 * <blockquote>

 * {@code ../../../demo/jfc/SwingSet2/src/SwingSet2.java}    (2)

 * </blockquote>

 *

 * against this result yields, in turn,

 *

 * <blockquote>

 * {@code http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/demo/jfc/SwingSet2/src/SwingSet2.java}

 * </blockquote>

 *

 * Resolution of both absolute and relative URIs, and of both absolute and

 * relative paths in the case of hierarchical URIs, is supported.  Resolving

 * the URI {@code file:///~calendar} against any other URI simply yields the

 * original URI, since it is absolute.  Resolving the relative URI (2) above

 * against the relative base URI (1) yields the normalized, but still relative,

 * URI

 *

 * <blockquote>

 * {@code demo/jfc/SwingSet2/src/SwingSet2.java}

 * </blockquote>

 *

 * <p> <i>Relativization</i>, finally, is the inverse of resolution: For any

 * two normalized URIs <i>u</i> and&nbsp;<i>v</i>,

 *

 * <blockquote>

 *   <i>u</i>{@code .relativize(}<i>u</i>{@code .resolve(}<i>v</i>{@code )).equals(}<i>v</i>{@code )}&nbsp;&nbsp;and<br>

 *   <i>u</i>{@code .resolve(}<i>u</i>{@code .relativize(}<i>v</i>{@code )).equals(}<i>v</i>{@code )}&nbsp;&nbsp;.<br>

 * </blockquote>

 *

 * This operation is often useful when constructing a document containing URIs

 * that must be made relative to the base URI of the document wherever

 * possible.  For example, relativizing the URI

 *

 * <blockquote>

 * {@code https://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.3/docs/guide/index.html}

 * </blockquote>

 *

 * against the base URI

 *

 * <blockquote>

 * {@code http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3}

 * </blockquote>

 *

 * yields the relative URI {@code docs/guide/index.html}.

 *

 *

 * <h4> Character categories </h4>

 *

 * RFC 2396 specifies precisely which characters are permitted in the

 * various components of a URI reference.  The following categories, most of

 * which are taken from that specification, are used below to describe these

 * constraints:

 *

 * <blockquote><table cellspacing=2 summary="Describes categories alpha,digit,alphanum,unreserved,punct,reserved,escaped,and other">

 *   <tr><th valign=top><i>alpha</i></th>

 *       <td>The US-ASCII alphabetic characters,

 *        {@code 'A'} through {@code 'Z'}

 *        and {@code 'a'}&nbsp;through&nbsp;{@code 'z'}</td></tr>

 *   <tr><th valign=top><i>digit</i></th>

 *       <td>The US-ASCII decimal digit characters,

 *       {@code '0'}&nbsp;through&nbsp;{@code '9'}</td></tr>

 *   <tr><th valign=top><i>alphanum</i></th>

 *       <td>All <i>alpha</i> and <i>digit</i> characters</td></tr>

 *   <tr><th valign=top><i>unreserved</i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</th>

 *       <td>All <i>alphanum</i> characters together with those in the string

 *        {@code "_-!.~'()*"}</td></tr>

 *   <tr><th valign=top><i>punct</i></th>

 *       <td>The characters in the string {@code ",;:$&+="}</td></tr>

 *   <tr><th valign=top><i>reserved</i></th>

 *       <td>All <i>punct</i> characters together with those in the string

 *        {@code "?/[]@"}</td></tr>

 *   <tr><th valign=top><i>escaped</i></th>

 *       <td>Escaped octets, that is, triplets consisting of the percent

 *           character ({@code '%'}) followed by two hexadecimal digits

 *           ({@code '0'}-{@code '9'}, {@code 'A'}-{@code 'F'}, and

 *           {@code 'a'}-{@code 'f'})</td></tr>

 *   <tr><th valign=top><i>other</i></th>

 *       <td>The Unicode characters that are not in the US-ASCII character set,

 *           are not control characters (according to the {@link

 *           java.lang.Character#isISOControl(char) Character.isISOControl}

 *           method), and are not space characters (according to the {@link

 *           java.lang.Character#isSpaceChar(char) Character.isSpaceChar}

 *           method)&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>(<b>Deviation from RFC 2396</b>, which is

 *           limited to US-ASCII)</i></td></tr>

 * </table></blockquote>

 *

 * <p><a name="legal-chars"></a> The set of all legal URI characters consists of

 * the <i>unreserved</i>, <i>reserved</i>, <i>escaped</i>, and <i>other</i>

 * characters.

 *

 *

 * <h4> Escaped octets, quotation, encoding, and decoding </h4>

 *

 * RFC 2396 allows escaped octets to appear in the user-info, path, query, and

 * fragment components.  Escaping serves two purposes in URIs:

 *

 * <ul>

 *

 *   <li><p> To <i>encode</i> non-US-ASCII characters when a URI is required to

 *   conform strictly to RFC&nbsp;2396 by not containing any <i>other</i>

 *   characters.  </p></li>

 *

 *   <li><p> To <i>quote</i> characters that are otherwise illegal in a

 *   component.  The user-info, path, query, and fragment components differ

 *   slightly in terms of which characters are considered legal and illegal.

 *   </p></li>

 *

 * </ul>

 *

 * These purposes are served in this class by three related operations:

 *

 * <ul>

 *

 *   <li><p><a name="encode"></a> A character is <i>encoded</i> by replacing it

 *   with the sequence of escaped octets that represent that character in the

 *   UTF-8 character set.  The Euro currency symbol ({@code '\u005Cu20AC'}),

 *   for example, is encoded as {@code "%E2%82%AC"}.  <i>(<b>Deviation from

 *   RFC&nbsp;2396</b>, which does not specify any particular character

 *   set.)</i> </p></li>

 *

 *   <li><p><a name="quote"></a> An illegal character is <i>quoted</i> simply by

 *   encoding it.  The space character, for example, is quoted by replacing it

 *   with {@code "%20"}.  UTF-8 contains US-ASCII, hence for US-ASCII

 *   characters this transformation has exactly the effect required by

 *   RFC&nbsp;2396. </p></li>

 *

 *   <li><p><a name="decode"></a>

 *   A sequence of escaped octets is <i>decoded</i> by

 *   replacing it with the sequence of characters that it represents in the

 *   UTF-8 character set.  UTF-8 contains US-ASCII, hence decoding has the

 *   effect of de-quoting any quoted US-ASCII characters as well as that of

 *   decoding any encoded non-US-ASCII characters.  If a <a

 *   href="../nio/charset/CharsetDecoder.html#ce">decoding error</a> occurs

 *   when decoding the escaped octets then the erroneous octets are replaced by

 *   {@code '\u005CuFFFD'}, the Unicode replacement character.  </p></li>

 *

 * </ul>

 *

 * These operations are exposed in the constructors and methods of this class

 * as follows:

 *

 * <ul>

 *

 *   <li><p> The {@linkplain #URI(java.lang.String) single-argument

 *   constructor} requires any illegal characters in its argument to be

 *   quoted and preserves any escaped octets and <i>other</i> characters that

 *   are present.  </p></li>

 *

 *   <li><p> The {@linkplain

 *   #URI(java.lang.String,java.lang.String,java.lang.String,int,java.lang.String,java.lang.String,java.lang.String)

 *   multi-argument constructors} quote illegal characters as

 *   required by the components in which they appear.  The percent character

 *   ({@code '%'}) is always quoted by these constructors.  Any <i>other</i>

 *   characters are preserved.  </p></li>

 *

 *   <li><p> The {@link #getRawUserInfo() getRawUserInfo}, {@link #getRawPath()

 *   getRawPath}, {@link #getRawQuery() getRawQuery}, {@link #getRawFragment()

 *   getRawFragment}, {@link #getRawAuthority() getRawAuthority}, and {@link

 *   #getRawSchemeSpecificPart() getRawSchemeSpecificPart} methods return the

 *   values of their corresponding components in raw form, without interpreting

 *   any escaped octets.  The strings returned by these methods may contain

 *   both escaped octets and <i>other</i> characters, and will not contain any

 *   illegal characters.  </p></li>

 *

 *   <li><p> The {@link #getUserInfo() getUserInfo}, {@link #getPath()

 *   getPath}, {@link #getQuery() getQuery}, {@link #getFragment()

 *   getFragment}, {@link #getAuthority() getAuthority}, and {@link

 *   #getSchemeSpecificPart() getSchemeSpecificPart} methods decode any escaped

 *   octets in their corresponding components.  The strings returned by these

 *   methods may contain both <i>other</i> characters and illegal characters,

 *   and will not contain any escaped octets.  </p></li>

 *

 *   <li><p> The {@link #toString() toString} method returns a URI string with

 *   all necessary quotation but which may contain <i>other</i> characters.

 *   </p></li>

 *

 *   <li><p> The {@link #toASCIIString() toASCIIString} method returns a fully

 *   quoted and encoded URI string that does not contain any <i>other</i>

 *   characters.  </p></li>

 *

 * </ul>

 *

 *

 * <h4> Identities </h4>

 *

 * For any URI <i>u</i>, it is always the case that

 *

 * <blockquote>

 * {@code new URI(}<i>u</i>{@code .toString()).equals(}<i>u</i>{@code )}&nbsp;.

 * </blockquote>

 *

 * For any URI <i>u</i> that does not contain redundant syntax such as two

 * slashes before an empty authority (as in {@code file:///tmp/} ) or a

 * colon following a host name but no port (as in

 * {@code http://java.sun.com:} ), and that does not encode characters

 * except those that must be quoted, the following identities also hold:

 * <pre>

 *     new URI(<i>u</i>.getScheme(),

 *             <i>u</i>.getSchemeSpecificPart(),

 *             <i>u</i>.getFragment())

 *     .equals(<i>u</i>)</pre>

 * in all cases,

 * <pre>

 *     new URI(<i>u</i>.getScheme(),

 *             <i>u</i>.getUserInfo(), <i>u</i>.getAuthority(),

 *             <i>u</i>.getPath(), <i>u</i>.getQuery(),

 *             <i>u</i>.getFragment())

 *     .equals(<i>u</i>)</pre>

 * if <i>u</i> is hierarchical, and

 * <pre>

 *     new URI(<i>u</i>.getScheme(),

 *             <i>u</i>.getUserInfo(), <i>u</i>.getHost(), <i>u</i>.getPort(),

 *             <i>u</i>.getPath(), <i>u</i>.getQuery(),

 *             <i>u</i>.getFragment())

 *     .equals(<i>u</i>)</pre>

 * if <i>u</i> is hierarchical and has either no authority or a server-based

 * authority.

 *

 *

 * <h4> URIs, URLs, and URNs </h4>

 *

 * A URI is a uniform resource <i>identifier</i> while a URL is a uniform

 * resource <i>locator</i>.  Hence every URL is a URI, abstractly speaking, but

 * not every URI is a URL.  This is because there is another subcategory of

 * URIs, uniform resource <i>names</i> (URNs), which name resources but do not

 * specify how to locate them.  The {@code mailto}, {@code news}, and

 * {@code isbn} URIs shown above are examples of URNs.

 *

 * <p> The conceptual distinction between URIs and URLs is reflected in the

 * differences between this class and the {@link URL} class.

 *

 * <p> An instance of this class represents a URI reference in the syntactic

 * sense defined by RFC 2396.  A URI may be either absolute or relative.

 * A URI string is parsed according to the generic syntax without regard to the

 * scheme, if any, that it specifies.  No lookup of the host, if any, is

 * performed, and no scheme-dependent stream handler is constructed.  Equality,

 * hashing, and comparison are defined strictly in terms of the character

 * content of the instance.  In other words, a URI instance is little more than

 * a structured string that supports the syntactic, scheme-independent

 * operations of comparison, normalization, resolution, and relativization.

 *

 * <p> An instance of the {@link URL} class, by contrast, represents the

 * syntactic components of a URL together with some of the information required

 * to access the resource that it describes.  A URL must be absolute, that is,

 * it must always specify a scheme.  A URL string is parsed according to its

 * scheme.  A stream handler is always established for a URL, and in fact it is

 * impossible to create a URL instance for a scheme for which no handler is

 * available.  Equality and hashing depend upon both the scheme and the

 * Internet address of the host, if any; comparison is not defined.  In other

 * words, a URL is a structured string that supports the syntactic operation of

 * resolution as well as the network I/O operations of looking up the host and

 * opening a connection to the specified resource.

 *

 *

 * @author Mark Reinhold

 * @since 1.4

 *

 * @see <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2279.txt"><i>RFC&nbsp;2279: UTF-8, a

 * transformation format of ISO 10646</i></a>, <br><a

 * href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2373.txt"><i>RFC&nbsp;2373: IPv6 Addressing

 * Architecture</i></a>, <br><a

 * href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt"><i>RFC&nbsp;2396: Uniform

 * Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax</i></a>, <br><a

 * href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2732.txt"><i>RFC&nbsp;2732: Format for

 * Literal IPv6 Addresses in URLs</i></a>, <br><a

 * href="URISyntaxException.html">URISyntaxException</a>

 */

public final class URI

    implements Comparable<URI>, Serializable

{

    // Note: Comments containing the word "ASSERT" indicate places where a

    // throw of an InternalError should be replaced by an appropriate assertion

    // statement once asserts are enabled in the build.

    static final long serialVersionUID = -6052424284110960213L;

    // -- Properties and components of this instance --

    // Components of all URIs: [<scheme>:]<scheme-specific-part>[#<fragment>]

    private transient String scheme;            // null ==> relative URI

    private transient String fragment;

    // Hierarchical URI components: [//<authority>]<path>[?<query>]

    private transient String authority;         // Registry or server

    // Server-based authority: [<userInfo>@]<host>[:<port>]

    private transient String userInfo;

    private transient String host;              // null ==> registry-based

    private transient int port = -1;            // -1 ==> undefined

    // Remaining components of hierarchical URIs

    private transient String path;              // null ==> opaque

    private transient String query;

    // The remaining fields may be computed on demand

    private volatile transient String schemeSpecificPart;

    private volatile transient int hash;        // Zero ==> undefined

    private volatile transient String decodedUserInfo = null;

    private volatile transient String decodedAuthority = null;

    private volatile transient String decodedPath = null;

    private volatile transient String decodedQuery = null;

    private volatile transient String decodedFragment = null;

    private volatile transient String decodedSchemeSpecificPart = null;

    /**

     * The string form of this URI.

     *

     * @serial

     */

    private volatile String string;             // The only serializable field

    // -- Constructors and factories --

    private URI() { }                           // Used internally

    /**

     * Constructs a URI by parsing the given string.

     *

     * <p> This constructor parses the given string exactly as specified by the

     * grammar in <a

     * href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC&nbsp;2396</a>,

     * Appendix&nbsp;A, <b><i>except for the following deviations:</i></b> </p>

     *

     * <ul>

     *

     *   <li><p> An empty authority component is permitted as long as it is

     *   followed by a non-empty path, a query component, or a fragment

     *   component.  This allows the parsing of URIs such as

     *   {@code "file:///foo/bar"}, which seems to be the intent of

     *   RFC 2396 although the grammar does not permit it.  If the

     *   authority component is empty then the user-information, host, and port

     *   components are undefined. </p></li>

     *

     *   <li><p> Empty relative paths are permitted; this seems to be the

     *   intent of RFC 2396 although the grammar does not permit it.  The

     *   primary consequence of this deviation is that a standalone fragment

     *   such as {@code "#foo"} parses as a relative URI with an empty path

     *   and the given fragment, and can be usefully <a

     *   href="#resolve-frag">resolved</a> against a base URI.

     *

     *   <li><p> IPv4 addresses in host components are parsed rigorously, as

     *   specified by <a

     *   href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2732.txt">RFC&nbsp;2732</a>: Each

     *   element of a dotted-quad address must contain no more than three

     *   decimal digits.  Each element is further constrained to have a value

     *   no greater than 255. </p></li>

     *

     *   <li> <p> Hostnames in host components that comprise only a single

     *   domain label are permitted to start with an <i>alphanum</i>

     *   character. This seems to be the intent of <a

     *   href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC&nbsp;2396</a>

     *   section 3.2.2 although the grammar does not permit it. The

     *   consequence of this deviation is that the authority component of a

     *   hierarchical URI such as {@code s://123}, will parse as a server-based

     *   authority. </p></li>

     *

     *   <li><p> IPv6 addresses are permitted for the host component.  An IPv6

     *   address must be enclosed in square brackets ({@code '['} and

     *   {@code ']'}) as specified by <a

     *   href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2732.txt">RFC&nbsp;2732</a>.  The

     *   IPv6 address itself must parse according to <a

     *   href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2373.txt">RFC&nbsp;2373</a>.  IPv6

     *   addresses are further constrained to describe no more than sixteen

     *   bytes of address information, a constraint implicit in RFC 2373

     *   but not expressible in the grammar. </p></li>

     *

     *   <li><p> Characters in the <i>other</i> category are permitted wherever

     *   RFC&nbsp;2396 permits <i>escaped</i> octets, that is, in the

     *   user-information, path, query, and fragment components, as well as in

     *   the authority component if the authority is registry-based.  This

     *   allows URIs to contain Unicode characters beyond those in the US-ASCII

     *   character set. </p></li>

     *

     * </ul>

     *

     * @param  str   The string to be parsed into a URI

     *

     * @throws  NullPointerException

     *          If {@code str} is {@code null}

     *

     * @throws  URISyntaxException

     *          If the given string violates RFC 2396, as augmented

     *          by the above deviations

     */

    public URI(String str) throws URISyntaxException {

        new Parser(str).parse(false);

    }

    /**

     * Constructs a hierarchical URI from the given components.

     *

     * <p> If a scheme is given then the path, if also given, must either be

     * empty or begin with a slash character ({@code '/'}).  Otherwise a

     * component of the new URI may be left undefined by passing {@code null}

     * for the corresponding parameter or, in the case of the {@code port}

     * parameter, by passing {@code -1}.

     *

     * <p> This constructor first builds a URI string from the given components

     * according to the rules specified in <a

     * href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC&nbsp;2396</a>,

     * section&nbsp;5.2, step&nbsp;7: </p>

     *

     * <ol>

     *

     *   <li><p> Initially, the result string is empty. </p></li>

     *

     *   <li><p> If a scheme is given then it is appended to the result,

     *   followed by a colon character ({@code ':'}).  </p></li>

     *

     *   <li><p> If user information, a host, or a port are given then the

     *   string {@code "//"} is appended.  </p></li>

     *

     *   <li><p> If user information is given then it is appended, followed by

     *   a commercial-at character ({@code '@'}).  Any character not in the

     *   <i>unreserved</i>, <i>punct</i>, <i>escaped</i>, or <i>other</i>

     *   categories is <a href="#quote">quoted</a>.  </p></li>

     *

     *   <li><p> If a host is given then it is appended.  If the host is a

     *   literal IPv6 address but is not enclosed in square brackets

     *   ({@code '['} and {@code ']'}) then the square brackets are added.

     *   </p></li>

     *

     *   <li><p> If a port number is given then a colon character

     *   ({@code ':'}) is appended, followed by the port number in decimal.

     *   </p></li>

     *

     *   <li><p> If a path is given then it is appended.  Any character not in

     *   the <i>unreserved</i>, <i>punct</i>, <i>escaped</i>, or <i>other</i>

     *   categories, and not equal to the slash character ({@code '/'}) or the

     *   commercial-at character ({@code '@'}), is quoted.  </p></li>

     *

     *   <li><p> If a query is given then a question-mark character

     *   ({@code '?'}) is appended, followed by the query.  Any character that

     *   is not a <a href="#legal-chars">legal URI character</a> is quoted.

     *   </p></li>

     *

     *   <li><p> Finally, if a fragment is given then a hash character

     *   ({@code '#'}) is appended, followed by the fragment.  Any character

     *   that is not a legal URI character is quoted.  </p></li>

     *

     * </ol>

     *

     * <p> The resulting URI string is then parsed as if by invoking the {@link

     * #URI(String)} constructor and then invoking the {@link

     * #parseServerAuthority()} method upon the result; this may cause a {@link

     * URISyntaxException} to be thrown.  </p>

     *

     * @param   scheme    Scheme name

     * @param   userInfo  User name and authorization information

     * @param   host      Host name

     * @param   port      Port number

     * @param   path      Path

     * @param   query     Query

     * @param   fragment  Fragment

     *

     * @throws URISyntaxException

     *         If both a scheme and a path are given but the path is relative,

     *         if the URI string constructed from the given components violates

     *         RFC 2396, or if the authority component of the string is

     *         present but cannot be parsed as a server-based authority

     */

    public URI(String scheme,

               String userInfo, String host, int port,

               String path, String query, String fragment)

        throws URISyntaxException

    {

        String s = toString(scheme, null,

                            null, userInfo, host, port,

                            path, query, fragment);

        checkPath(s, scheme, path);

        new Parser(s).parse(true);

    }

    /**

     * Constructs a hierarchical URI from the given components.

     *

     * <p> If a scheme is given then the path, if also given, must either be

     * empty or begin with a slash character ({@code '/'}).  Otherwise a

     * component of the new URI may be left undefined by passing {@code null}

     * for the corresponding parameter.

     *

     * <p> This constructor first builds a URI string from the given components

     * according to the rules specified in <a

     * href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC&nbsp;2396</a>,

     * section&nbsp;5.2, step&nbsp;7: </p>

     *

     * <ol>

     *

     *   <li><p> Initially, the result string is empty.  </p></li>

     *

     *   <li><p> If a scheme is given then it is appended to the result,

     *   followed by a colon character ({@code ':'}).  </p></li>

     *

     *   <li><p> If an authority is given then the string {@code "//"} is

     *   appended, followed by the authority.  If the authority contains a

     *   literal IPv6 address then the address must be enclosed in square

     *   brackets ({@code '['} and {@code ']'}).  Any character not in the

     *   <i>unreserved</i>, <i>punct</i>, <i>escaped</i>, or <i>other</i>

     *   categories, and not equal to the commercial-at character

     *   ({@code '@'}), is <a href="#quote">quoted</a>.  </p></li>

     *

     *   <li><p> If a path is given then it is appended.  Any character not in

     *   the <i>unreserved</i>, <i>punct</i>, <i>escaped</i>, or <i>other</i>

     *   categories, and not equal to the slash character ({@code '/'}) or the

     *   commercial-at character ({@code '@'}), is quoted.  </p></li>

     *

     *   <li><p> If a query is given then a question-mark character

     *   ({@code '?'}) is appended, followed by the query.  Any character that

     *   is not a <a href="#legal-chars">legal URI character</a> is quoted.

     *   </p></li>

     *

     *   <li><p> Finally, if a fragment is given then a hash character

     *   ({@code '#'}) is appended, followed by the fragment.  Any character

     *   that is not a legal URI character is quoted.  </p></li>

     *

     * </ol>

     *

     * <p> The resulting URI string is then parsed as if by invoking the {@link

     * #URI(String)} constructor and then invoking the {@link

     * #parseServerAuthority()} method upon the result; this may cause a {@link

     * URISyntaxException} to be thrown.  </p>

     *

     * @param   scheme     Scheme name

     * @param   authority  Authority

     * @param   path       Path

     * @param   query      Query

     * @param   fragment   Fragment

     *

     * @throws URISyntaxException

     *         If both a scheme and a path are given but the path is relative,

     *         if the URI string constructed from the given components violates

     *         RFC 2396, or if the authority component of the string is

     *         present but cannot be parsed as a server-based authority

     */

    public URI(String scheme,

               String authority,

               String path, String query, String fragment)

        throws URISyntaxException

    {

        String s = toString(scheme, null,

                            authority, null, null, -1,

                            path, query, fragment);

        checkPath(s, scheme, path);

        new Parser(s).parse(false);

    }

    /**

     * Constructs a hierarchical URI from the given components.

     *

     * <p> A component may be left undefined by passing {@code null}.

     *

     * <p> This convenience constructor works as if by invoking the

     * seven-argument constructor as follows:

     *

     * <blockquote>

     * {@code new} {@link #URI(String, String, String, int, String, String, String)

     * URI}{@code (scheme, null, host, -1, path, null, fragment);}

     * </blockquote>

     *

     * @param   scheme    Scheme name

     * @param   host      Host name

     * @param   path      Path

     * @param   fragment  Fragment

     *

     * @throws  URISyntaxException

     *          If the URI string constructed from the given components

     *          violates RFC 2396

     */

    public URI(String scheme, String host, String path, String fragment)

        throws URISyntaxException

    {

        this(scheme, null, host, -1, path, null, fragment);

    }

    /**

     * Constructs a URI from the given components.

     *

     * <p> A component may be left undefined by passing {@code null}.

     *

     * <p> This constructor first builds a URI in string form using the given

     * components as follows:  </p>

     *

     * <ol>

     *

     *   <li><p> Initially, the result string is empty.  </p></li>

     *

     *   <li><p> If a scheme is given then it is appended to the result,

     *   followed by a colon character ({@code ':'}).  </p></li>

     *

     *   <li><p> If a scheme-specific part is given then it is appended.  Any

     *   character that is not a <a href="#legal-chars">legal URI character</a>

     *   is <a href="#quote">quoted</a>.  </p></li>

     *

     *   <li><p> Finally, if a fragment is given then a hash character

     *   ({@code '#'}) is appended to the string, followed by the fragment.

     *   Any character that is not a legal URI character is quoted.  </p></li>

     *

     * </ol>

     *

     * <p> The resulting URI string is then parsed in order to create the new

     * URI instance as if by invoking the {@link #URI(String)} constructor;

     * this may cause a {@link URISyntaxException} to be thrown.  </p>

     *

     * @param   scheme    Scheme name

     * @param   ssp       Scheme-specific part

     * @param   fragment  Fragment

     *

     * @throws  URISyntaxException

     *          If the URI string constructed from the given components

     *          violates RFC 2396

     */

    public URI(String scheme, String ssp, String fragment)

        throws URISyntaxException

    {

        new Parser(toString(scheme, ssp,

                            null, null, null, -1,

                            null, null, fragment))

            .parse(false);

    }

    /**

     * Creates a URI by parsing the given string.

     *

     * <p> This convenience factory method works as if by invoking the {@link

     * #URI(String)} constructor; any {@link URISyntaxException} thrown by the

     * constructor is caught and wrapped in a new {@link

     * IllegalArgumentException} object, which is then thrown.

     *

     * <p> This method is provided for use in situations where it is known that

     * the given string is a legal URI, for example for URI constants declared

     * within in a program, and so it would be considered a programming error

     * for the string not to parse as such.  The constructors, which throw

     * {@link URISyntaxException} directly, should be used situations where a

     * URI is being constructed from user input or from some other source that

     * may be prone to errors.  </p>

     *

     * @param  str   The string to be parsed into a URI

     * @return The new URI

     *

     * @throws  NullPointerException

     *          If {@code str} is {@code null}

     *

     * @throws  IllegalArgumentException

     *          If the given string violates RFC 2396

     */

    public static URI create(String str) {

        try {

            return new URI(str);

        } catch (URISyntaxException x) {

            throw new IllegalArgumentException(x.getMessage(), x);

        }

    }

    // -- Operations --

    /**

     * Attempts to parse this URI's authority component, if defined, into

     * user-information, host, and port components.

     *

     * <p> If this URI's authority component has already been recognized as

     * being server-based then it will already have been parsed into

     * user-information, host, and port components.  In this case, or if this

     * URI has no authority component, this method simply returns this URI.

     *

     * <p> Otherwise this method attempts once more to parse the authority

     * component into user-information, host, and port components, and throws

     * an exception describing why the authority component could not be parsed

     * in that way.

     *

     * <p> This method is provided because the generic URI syntax specified in

     * <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC&nbsp;2396</a>

     * cannot always distinguish a malformed server-based authority from a

     * legitimate registry-based authority.  It must therefore treat some

     * instances of the former as instances of the latter.  The authority

     * component in the URI string {@code "//foo:bar"}, for example, is not a

     * legal server-based authority but it is legal as a registry-based

     * authority.

     *

     * <p> In many common situations, for example when working URIs that are

     * known to be either URNs or URLs, the hierarchical URIs being used will

     * always be server-based.  They therefore must either be parsed as such or

     * treated as an error.  In these cases a statement such as

     *

     * <blockquote>

     * {@code URI }<i>u</i>{@code  = new URI(str).parseServerAuthority();}

     * </blockquote>

     *

     * <p> can be used to ensure that <i>u</i> always refers to a URI that, if

     * it has an authority component, has a server-based authority with proper

     * user-information, host, and port components.  Invoking this method also

     * ensures that if the authority could not be parsed in that way then an

     * appropriate diagnostic message can be issued based upon the exception

     * that is thrown. </p>

     *

     * @return  A URI whose authority field has been parsed

     *          as a server-based authority

     *

     * @throws  URISyntaxException

     *          If the authority component of this URI is defined

     *          but cannot be parsed as a server-based authority

     *          according to RFC 2396

     */

    public URI parseServerAuthority()

        throws URISyntaxException

    {

        // We could be clever and cache the error message and index from the

        // exception thrown during the original parse, but that would require

        // either more fields or a more-obscure representation.

        if ((host != null) || (authority == null))

            return this;

        defineString();

        new Parser(string).parse(true);

        return this;

    }

    /**

     * Normalizes this URI's path.

     *

     * <p> If this URI is opaque, or if its path is already in normal form,

     * then this URI is returned.  Otherwise a new URI is constructed that is

     * identical to this URI except that its path is computed by normalizing

     * this URI's path in a manner consistent with <a

     * href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC&nbsp;2396</a>,

     * section 5.2, step 6, sub-steps c through f; that is:

     * </p>

     *

     * <ol>

     *

     *   <li><p> All {@code "."} segments are removed. </p></li>

     *

     *   <li><p> If a {@code ".."} segment is preceded by a non-{@code ".."}

     *   segment then both of these segments are removed.  This step is

     *   repeated until it is no longer applicable. </p></li>

     *

     *   <li><p> If the path is relative, and if its first segment contains a

     *   colon character ({@code ':'}), then a {@code "."} segment is

     *   prepended.  This prevents a relative URI with a path such as

     *   {@code "a:b/c/d"} from later being re-parsed as an opaque URI with a

     *   scheme of {@code "a"} and a scheme-specific part of {@code "b/c/d"}.

     *   <b><i>(Deviation from RFC&nbsp;2396)</i></b> </p></li>

     *

     * </ol>

     *

     * <p> A normalized path will begin with one or more {@code ".."} segments

     * if there were insufficient non-{@code ".."} segments preceding them to

     * allow their removal.  A normalized path will begin with a {@code "."}

     * segment if one was inserted by step 3 above.  Otherwise, a normalized

     * path will not contain any {@code "."} or {@code ".."} segments. </p>

     *

     * @return  A URI equivalent to this URI,

     *          but whose path is in normal form

     */

    public URI normalize() {

        return normalize(this);

    }

    /**

     * Resolves the given URI against this URI.

     *

     * <p> If the given URI is already absolute, or if this URI is opaque, then

     * the given URI is returned.

     *

     * <p><a name="resolve-frag"></a> If the given URI's fragment component is

     * defined, its path component is empty, and its scheme, authority, and

     * query components are undefined, then a URI with the given fragment but

     * with all other components equal to those of this URI is returned.  This

     * allows a URI representing a standalone fragment reference, such as

     * {@code "#foo"}, to be usefully resolved against a base URI.

     *

     * <p> Otherwise this method constructs a new hierarchical URI in a manner

     * consistent with <a

     * href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC&nbsp;2396</a>,

     * section&nbsp;5.2; that is: </p>

     *

     * <ol>

     *

     *   <li><p> A new URI is constructed with this URI's scheme and the given

     *   URI's query and fragment components. </p></li>

     *

     *   <li><p> If the given URI has an authority component then the new URI's

     *   authority and path are taken from the given URI. </p></li>

     *

     *   <li><p> Otherwise the new URI's authority component is copied from

     *   this URI, and its path is computed as follows: </p>

     *

     *   <ol>

     *

     *     <li><p> If the given URI's path is absolute then the new URI's path

     *     is taken from the given URI. </p></li>

     *

     *     <li><p> Otherwise the given URI's path is relative, and so the new

     *     URI's path is computed by resolving the path of the given URI

     *     against the path of this URI.  This is done by concatenating all but

     *     the last segment of this URI's path, if any, with the given URI's

     *     path and then normalizing the result as if by invoking the {@link

     *     #normalize() normalize} method. </p></li>

     *

     *   </ol></li>

     *

     * </ol>

     *

     * <p> The result of this method is absolute if, and only if, either this

     * URI is absolute or the given URI is absolute.  </p>

     *

     * @param  uri  The URI to be resolved against this URI

     * @return The resulting URI

     *

     * @throws  NullPointerException

     *          If {@code uri} is {@code null}

     */

    public URI resolve(URI uri) {

        return resolve(this, uri);

    }

    /**

     * Constructs a new URI by parsing the given string and then resolving it

     * against this URI.

     *

     * <p> This convenience method works as if invoking it were equivalent to

     * evaluating the expression {@link #resolve(java.net.URI)

     * resolve}{@code (URI.}{@link #create(String) create}{@code (str))}. </p>

     *

     * @param  str   The string to be parsed into a URI

     * @return The resulting URI

     *

     * @throws  NullPointerException

     *          If {@code str} is {@code null}

     *

     * @throws  IllegalArgumentException

     *          If the given string violates RFC 2396

     */

    public URI resolve(String str) {

        return resolve(URI.create(str));

    }

    /**

     * Relativizes the given URI against this URI.

     *

     * <p> The relativization of the given URI against this URI is computed as

     * follows: </p>

     *

     * <ol>

     *

     *   <li><p> If either this URI or the given URI are opaque, or if the

     *   scheme and authority components of the two URIs are not identical, or

     *   if the path of this URI is not a prefix of the path of the given URI,

     *   then the given URI is returned. </p></li>

     *

     *   <li><p> Otherwise a new relative hierarchical URI is constructed with

     *   query and fragment components taken from the given URI and with a path

     *   component computed by removing this URI's path from the beginning of

     *   the given URI's path. </p></li>

     *

     * </ol>

     *

     * @param  uri  The URI to be relativized against this URI

     * @return The resulting URI

     *

     * @throws  NullPointerException

     *          If {@code uri} is {@code null}

     */

    public URI relativize(URI uri) {

        return relativize(this, uri);

    }

    /**

     * Constructs a URL from this URI.

     *

     * <p> This convenience method works as if invoking it were equivalent to

     * evaluating the expression {@code new URL(this.toString())} after

     * first checking that this URI is absolute. </p>

     *

     * @return  A URL constructed from this URI

     *

     * @throws  IllegalArgumentException

     *          If this URL is not absolute

     *

     * @throws  MalformedURLException

     *          If a protocol handler for the URL could not be found,

     *          or if some other error occurred while constructing the URL

     */

    public URL toURL()

        throws MalformedURLException {

        if (!isAbsolute())

            throw new IllegalArgumentException("URI is not absolute");

        return new URL(toString());

    }

    // -- Component access methods --

    /**

     * Returns the scheme component of this URI.

     *

     * <p> The scheme component of a URI, if defined, only contains characters

     * in the <i>alphanum</i> category and in the string {@code "-.+"}.  A

     * scheme always starts with an <i>alpha</i> character. <p>

     *

     * The scheme component of a URI cannot contain escaped octets, hence this

     * method does not perform any decoding.

     *

     * @return  The scheme component of this URI,

     *          or {@code null} if the scheme is undefined

     */

    public String getScheme() {

        return scheme;

    }

    /**

     * Tells whether or not this URI is absolute.

     *

     * <p> A URI is absolute if, and only if, it has a scheme component. </p>

     *

     * @return  {@code true} if, and only if, this URI is absolute

     */

    public boolean isAbsolute() {

        return scheme != null;

    }

    /**

     * Tells whether or not this URI is opaque.

     *

     * <p> A URI is opaque if, and only if, it is absolute and its

     * scheme-specific part does not begin with a slash character ('/').

     * An opaque URI has a scheme, a scheme-specific part, and possibly

     * a fragment; all other components are undefined. </p>

     *

     * @return  {@code true} if, and only if, this URI is opaque

     */

    public boolean isOpaque() {

        return path == null;

    }

    /**

     * Returns the raw scheme-specific part of this URI.  The scheme-specific

     * part is never undefined, though it may be empty.

     *

     * <p> The scheme-specific part of a URI only contains legal URI

     * characters. </p>

     *

     * @return  The raw scheme-specific part of this URI

     *          (never {@code null})

     */

    public String getRawSchemeSpecificPart() {

        defineSchemeSpecificPart();

        return schemeSpecificPart;

    }

    /**

     * Returns the decoded scheme-specific part of this URI.

     *

     * <p> The string returned by this method is equal to that returned by the

     * {@link #getRawSchemeSpecificPart() getRawSchemeSpecificPart} method

     * except that all sequences of escaped octets are <a

     * href="#decode">decoded</a>.  </p>

     *

     * @return  The decoded scheme-specific part of this URI

     *          (never {@code null})

     */

    public String getSchemeSpecificPart() {

        if (decodedSchemeSpecificPart == null)

            decodedSchemeSpecificPart = decode(getRawSchemeSpecificPart());

        return decodedSchemeSpecificPart;

    }

    /**

     * Returns the raw authority component of this URI.

     *

     * <p> The authority component of a URI, if defined, only contains the

     * commercial-at character ({@code '@'}) and characters in the

     * <i>unreserved</i>, <i>punct</i>, <i>escaped</i>, and <i>other</i>

     * categories.  If the authority is server-based then it is further

     * constrained to have valid user-information, host, and port

     * components. </p>

     *

     * @return  The raw authority component of this URI,

     *          or {@code null} if the authority is undefined

     */

    public String getRawAuthority() {

        return authority;

    }

    /**

     * Returns the decoded authority component of this URI.

     *

     * <p> The string returned by this method is equal to that returned by the

     * {@link #getRawAuthority() getRawAuthority} method except that all

     * sequences of escaped octets are <a href="#decode">decoded</a>.  </p>

     *

     * @return  The decoded authority component of this URI,

     *          or {@code null} if the authority is undefined

     */

    public String getAuthority() {

        if (decodedAuthority == null)

            decodedAuthority = decode(authority);

        return decodedAuthority;

    }

    /**

     * Returns the raw user-information component of this URI.

     *

     * <p> The user-information component of a URI, if defined, only contains

     * characters in the <i>unreserved</i>, <i>punct</i>, <i>escaped</i>, and

     * <i>other</i> categories. </p>

     *

     * @return  The raw user-information component of this URI,

     *          or {@code null} if the user information is undefined

     */

    public String getRawUserInfo() {

        return userInfo;

    }

    /**

     * Returns the decoded user-information component of this URI.

     *

     * <p> The string returned by this method is equal to that returned by the

     * {@link #getRawUserInfo() getRawUserInfo} method except that all

     * sequences of escaped octets are <a href="#decode">decoded</a>.  </p>

     *

     * @return  The decoded user-information component of this URI,

     *          or {@code null} if the user information is undefined

     */

    public String getUserInfo() {

        if ((decodedUserInfo == null) && (userInfo != null))

            decodedUserInfo = decode(userInfo);

        return decodedUserInfo;

    }

    /**

     * Returns the host component of this URI.

     *

     * <p> The host component of a URI, if defined, will have one of the

     * following forms: </p>

     *

     * <ul>

     *

     *   <li><p> A domain name consisting of one or more <i>labels</i>

     *   separated by period characters ({@code '.'}), optionally followed by

     *   a period character.  Each label consists of <i>alphanum</i> characters

     *   as well as hyphen characters ({@code '-'}), though hyphens never

     *   occur as the first or last characters in a label. The rightmost

     *   label of a domain name consisting of two or more labels, begins

     *   with an <i>alpha</i> character. </li>

     *

     *   <li><p> A dotted-quad IPv4 address of the form

     *   <i>digit</i>{@code +.}<i>digit</i>{@code +.}<i>digit</i>{@code +.}<i>digit</i>{@code +},

     *   where no <i>digit</i> sequence is longer than three characters and no

     *   sequence has a value larger than 255. </p></li>

     *

     *   <li><p> An IPv6 address enclosed in square brackets ({@code '['} and

     *   {@code ']'}) and consisting of hexadecimal digits, colon characters

     *   ({@code ':'}), and possibly an embedded IPv4 address.  The full

     *   syntax of IPv6 addresses is specified in <a

     *   href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2373.txt"><i>RFC&nbsp;2373: IPv6

     *   Addressing Architecture</i></a>.  </p></li>

     *

     * </ul>

     *

     * The host component of a URI cannot contain escaped octets, hence this

     * method does not perform any decoding.

     *

     * @return  The host component of this URI,

     *          or {@code null} if the host is undefined

     */

    public String getHost() {

        return host;

    }

    /**

     * Returns the port number of this URI.

     *

     * <p> The port component of a URI, if defined, is a non-negative

     * integer. </p>

     *

     * @return  The port component of this URI,

     *          or {@code -1} if the port is undefined

     */

    public int getPort() {

        return port;

    }

    /**

     * Returns the raw path component of this URI.

     *

     * <p> The path component of a URI, if defined, only contains the slash

     * character ({@code '/'}), the commercial-at character ({@code '@'}),

     * and characters in the <i>unreserved</i>, <i>punct</i>, <i>escaped</i>,

     * and <i>other</i> categories. </p>

     *

     * @return  The path component of this URI,

     *          or {@code null} if the path is undefined

     */

    public String getRawPath() {

        return path;

    }

    /**

     * Returns the decoded path component of this URI.

     *

     * <p> The string returned by this method is equal to that returned by the

     * {@link #getRawPath() getRawPath} method except that all sequences of

     * escaped octets are <a href="#decode">decoded</a>.  </p>

     *

     * @return  The decoded path component of this URI,

     *          or {@code null} if the path is undefined

     */

    public String getPath() {

        if ((decodedPath == null) && (path != null))

            decodedPath = decode(path);

        return decodedPath;

    }

    /**