How to check the extension of a Java 7 Path

I'd like to check if a Path (introduced in Java 7) ends with a certain extension. I tried the endsWith() method like so:

Path path = Paths.get("foo/bar.java")
if (path.endsWith(".java")){
    //Do stuff
}

However, this doesn't seem to work because path.endsWith(".java") returns false. It seems the endsWith() method only returns true if there is a complete match for everything after the final directory separator (e.g. bar.java), which isn't practical for me.

So how can I check the file extension of a Path?

Solution 1:

Java NIO's PathMatcher provides FileSystem.getPathMatcher(String syntaxAndPattern):

PathMatcher matcher = FileSystems.getDefault().getPathMatcher("glob:*.java");

Path filename = ...;
if (matcher.matches(filename)) {
    System.out.println(filename);
}

See the Finding Files tutorial for details.

Solution 2:

The Path class does not have a notion of "extension", probably because the file system itself does not have it. Which is why you need to check its String representation and see if it ends with the four five character string .java. Note that you need a different comparison than simple endsWith if you want to cover mixed case, such as ".JAVA" and ".Java":

path.toString().toLowerCase().endsWith(".java");