The FileStatus is a container of metadata for a specific path, and
hence carries the Path object the rest of the details are for.

What do you exactly mean by "has no defined contract"? If you want a
qualified path (for a specific FS), then doing "path.makeQualified(…)"
is always the right way.

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:31 PM, Jay Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi it appears that:
>
> http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/current/api/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileStatus.html
>
> getPath()
>
> has no defined contract.
>
> Why does FileStatus have a "getPAth" method?  Would it be the equivalent
> effect to
> simply make a path qualified using the FileSystem object?
>
> i.e. path.makeQualified(FileSystem.get()) ?
>
> --
> Jay Vyas
> http://jayunit100.blogspot.com

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