Github user paul-rogers commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/824#discussion_r122602623 --- Diff: exec/java-exec/src/main/java/org/apache/drill/exec/store/parquet/Metadata.java --- @@ -748,6 +771,22 @@ public ParquetTableMetadataDirs(List<String> directories) { return directories; } + /** If directories list contains relative paths, update it to absolute ones + * @param baseDir base parent directory + */ + @JsonIgnore public void updateRelativePaths(Path baseDir) { + if (!directories.isEmpty()) { + // It is enough to check the first path to decide if updating needed + if (!new Path(directories.get(0)).isAbsolute()) { --- End diff -- This is getting a bit silly, converting to/from String and Path. The `directories` list should contain Path elements. In general, we should never work with Path as strings except if we need to serialize as in Jackson.
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