Github user pwendell commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/853#discussion_r12987849
--- Diff: core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/Utils.scala ---
@@ -1166,4 +1166,35 @@ private[spark] object Utils extends Logging {
true
}
}
+
+ /** Return the URI of the input path. If a relative path is given,
assume it is local. */
+ def resolveURI(path: String, testWindows: Boolean = false): URI = {
+
+ // On Windows, file names cannot contain backslashes and colons,
+ // and each drive contains only a single alphabet character
+ val windows = isWindows || testWindows
+ val sanitizedPath = if (windows) path.replace("\\", "/") else path
--- End diff --
Might be good to document this and just say `// Convert from Windows path
syntax to URI syntax` or something:. In my mind "sanitized" would convey that
you are e.g. encoding special characters. But really this is just converting
from one format to another.
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