[jira] [Commented] (LUCENE-6770) FSDirectory ctor should use getAbsolutePath instead of getRealPath for directory

["Dawid Weiss (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Dawid Weiss commented on LUCENE-6770:
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This is also an issue with Windows (if you use reparse points, so-called "junctions"). But if I recall, there was a valid reason for using this particular method.

> FSDirectory ctor should use getAbsolutePath instead of getRealPath for directory
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-6770
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-6770
>             Project: Lucene - Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: core/store
>    Affects Versions: 5.2.1
>         Environment: OS X, Linux
>            Reporter: Vladimir Kuzmin
>         Attachments: LUCENE-6770.patch
>
>
> After upgrade from 4.1 to 5.2.1 I found that one of our test failed. Appeared the guilty was FSDirectory that converts given Path to Path.getRealPath. As result the test will fail:
> Path p = Paths.get("/var/lucene_store");
> FSDirectory d = new FSDirectory(p);
> assertEquals(p.toString(), d.getDirectory().toString());
> It because /var/lucene_store is a symlink and 
> Path directory =path.getRealPath(); 
> resolves it to /private/var/lucene_store
> I think this is bad design decision because "direcrory" isn't just internal state but is exposed in a public interface and "getDirectory()" is widely used to initialize other components. 
> It should use paths.getAbsolutePath() instead.
> build and "ant test" were successful after fix.



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