On Oct 31, 2011, at 5:41 PM, Eli Collins wrote: >> Regardless, I do think it makes sense to have a convenience method to get the >> raw path that was supplied at symlink creation. The first thing I tried was >> Path#toString() so that I guess is pretty intuitive but I can't comment on >> whether that would break compatibility. >> > > Would a method Path#getPathPart that returns just the path part of the > URI be sufficient? This would be similar to java's URI#getPath > (remember in Hadoop Path == URI) which just returns the path part of a > URI. > > (It's unfortunate that the Path class is named "Path" since now we > don't have a good name for just the path part).
I replied to another message in this thread regarding tracking the actual path. If I understand you correctly: In the FsShell, returning just the path component wouldn't be of much use. It needs the exact path/uri, as provided by the user, so its custom tracking can be removed. Daryn
