[SPARK-43284] _metadata.file_path regression

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.4.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.4.1, 3.5.0
• Component/s: Spark Core
• Assignee: David Lewis
• Reporter: David Lewis
• Shepherd: Wenchen Fan
• Created: 25/Apr/23 16:10
• Updated: 05/May/23 03:01
• Resolved: 05/May/23 02:57

Description

As part of the SparkPath refactor the behavior of `_metadata.file_path` was inadvertently changed. In Spark 3.4+ it now returns a non-encoded path string, as opposed to a url-encoded path string.

This ticket is to fix that regression.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #40947 (databricks-david-lewis)