FileEntity 'path' property has wrong separator in Windows.

[pcstout]

Bug Report

Operating system

Windows 10 Pro

Client version

1.9.2

Description of the problem

On Windows (win32) the path separator in the FileEntity is wrong.

Repro. Steps:

• Upload a file and look at the returned object's path property.

Expected behavior

• Path separator is \ and the character casing is correct.
  Correct path: C:\\Users\\John\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\tmpi7kpbq0s\\data\\core\\core_file_ace2.csv

Actual behavior

• Path separator is / and character casing is incorrect.
  Incorrect path: c:/users/john/appdata/local/temp/tmpi7kpbq0s/data/core/core_file_ace2.csv

[kimyen]

Hello @pcstout ,

Thank you for reporting this issue. I notice that you put down Ubuntu Linux 18.04 for Operating System. How do you run into problems with the Windows file path in a Linux environment?
Can you tell us more about how this problem impact your work? so that we can better prioritize this issue?

[pcstout]

@kimyen Sorry about that, it was on Windows 10 Pro. I updated the description.

[kimyen]

Thank you! I created https://sagebionetworks.jira.com/browse/SYNPY-959 to track the engineering progress. If this issue impact your downstream work (e.g., using the path to access the file), please let us know.

[pcstout]

Thanks @kimyen.
This is impacting one of our projects but we have some workarounds. Would be nice to get this fixed sooner than later though.