AK: Add URL::create_with_url_or_path()

This is an utility to create a URL from a given string, which may be either a
URL such as http://example.com (which will be used as-is), or a file path such
as /etc/fstab (which will be transformed into file:///etc/fstab).

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/AK/URL.cpp b/AK/URL.cpp
index d029282b95..8c77031b88 100644
--- a/AK/URL.cpp
+++ b/AK/URL.cpp
@@ -297,4 +297,14 @@ URL URL::create_with_file_protocol(const String& path)
     return url;
 }
 
+URL URL::create_with_url_or_path(const String& url_or_path)
+{
+    URL url = url_or_path;
+    if (url.is_valid())
+        return url;
+
+    String path = canonicalized_path(url_or_path);
+    return URL::create_with_file_protocol(path);
+}
+
 }