Hello, Yes, path.toUri().getPath() is a reliable way to get the absolute path without scheme or authority as a String from a Path instance. The Hadoop codebase itself uses this same pattern throughout a lot of JUnit tests when we need to run assertions on an absolute path.
--Chris Nauroth From: Richards Peter <hbkricha...@gmail.com<mailto:hbkricha...@gmail.com>> Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2015 at 1:12 AM To: "user@hadoop.apache.org<mailto:user@hadoop.apache.org>" <user@hadoop.apache.org<mailto:user@hadoop.apache.org>> Subject: Determine absolute path of a file in hdfs Hi, I have a situation where I need to determine the absolute path of a file in hadoop as a String. The path should exclude the schema and authority. Eg: /mn/op/data/t1.dat I found the following option in hadoop api: https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.6.2/api/org/apache/hadoop/fs/Path.html#getPathWithoutSchemeAndAuthority%28org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path%29 The aforementioned api returns a Path object. I do not want a new Path object. Instead I would like to obtain the path as a String. If I have the original path stored in a variable path (Path path), will path.toUri().getPath() be sufficient to retrieve the intended path as a String? I tried to obtain the path using this approach and I found it to work fine for the cases that I tested. But I would like to take a confirmation before I incorporate the code to my project. Could you please confirm whether my approach is fine? Thanks, Richards Peter.
