How to get absolute path from Path in HDFS

Question

I'm pretty much new to HDFS and faced the following problem:

org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path

does not have a method something like

getAbsolutePath

which would return

String

.

The

toString

method is not documented properly so is it reliable to use it?

Answer 1

org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path should return the full path. Yeah the toString method has barely any documentation but it works like it should!

Perhaps this could work too:

Path p = fs.getFileStatus(new Path(".")).getPath(); 
URI(p.toString()).getPath();

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