Getting canonical path from Path in Java

Question

I have a Path object, but it appears it does not have a getCanonicalPath() method like in the File class. Reason is I have dots in the Path that I want to eliminate to get something "unique":

/some/path/./something 
# should be
/some/path/something

Answer 1

See normalize and toRealPath.

Answer 2

It seems that getRealPath() does the job. If not you can always call path.toFile().getCanonicalPath()