I was playing around with non stringy types for an application loader i've been developing. As a typo, I forgot to include the protocol part of a specific URI. I expected the java test to fail due to an invalid URI... however this statement seems to work...
URI uri = URI.create("contacts.addresses.genericAddress")
To me, theres no standard for using a dot as a scheme part... and I thought the scheme part was always required?
Does anyone know why?
I'll add my comment as an answer because I think it's correct:
From the Java URI documentation: "specified by the grammar in RFC 2396, Appendix A" and appendix A allows a URI to be a relative path, with no host name or scheme. So "this.and.that" might just be a file name like "this.html" (dot's are valid as a file element name -- i.e., pchars in a path segment).