How to obtain the last path segment of a URI

I have as input a string that is a URI. how is it possible to get the last path segment (that in my case is an id)?

This is my input URL:

String uri = "http://base_path/some_segment/id"

and I have to obtain the id I have tried with this:

String strId = "http://base_path/some_segment/id";
strId = strId.replace(path);
strId = strId.replaceAll("/", "");
Integer id =  new Integer(strId);
return id.intValue();

but it doesn't work, and surely there must be a better way to do it.

Solution 1:

is that what you are looking for:

URI uri = new URI("http://example.com/foo/bar/42?param=true");
String path = uri.getPath();
String idStr = path.substring(path.lastIndexOf('/') + 1);
int id = Integer.parseInt(idStr);

alternatively

URI uri = new URI("http://example.com/foo/bar/42?param=true");
String[] segments = uri.getPath().split("/");
String idStr = segments[segments.length-1];
int id = Integer.parseInt(idStr);

Solution 2:

import android.net.Uri;
Uri uri = Uri.parse("http://example.com/foo/bar/42?param=true");
String token = uri.getLastPathSegment();

Solution 3:

Here's a short method to do it:

public static String getLastBitFromUrl(final String url){
    // return url.replaceFirst("[^?]*/(.*?)(?:\\?.*)","$1);" <-- incorrect
    return url.replaceFirst(".*/([^/?]+).*", "$1");
}

Test Code:

public static void main(final String[] args){
    System.out.println(getLastBitFromUrl(
        "http://example.com/foo/bar/42?param=true"));
    System.out.println(getLastBitFromUrl("http://example.com/foo"));
    System.out.println(getLastBitFromUrl("http://example.com/bar/"));
}

Output:

42
foo
bar

Explanation:

.*/      // find anything up to the last / character
([^/?]+) // find (and capture) all following characters up to the next / or ?
         // the + makes sure that at least 1 character is matched
.*       // find all following characters


$1       // this variable references the saved second group from above
         // I.e. the entire string is replaces with just the portion
         // captured by the parentheses above