openai/codex · error · io::Error

'{path}' is invalid on '{os}'

Error message

'{path}' is invalid on '{os}'

What it means

Error "'{path}' is invalid on '{os}'" thrown in openai/codex.

Source

Thrown at codex-rs/utils/path-uri/src/lib.rs:503

                    component => {
                        segments.push(component);
                        depth += 1;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        Self::try_from(url)
    }

    /// Converts this file URI to a path using the current host's path rules.
    ///
    /// The URI's inferred path convention must match the current host. Conversion should succeed
    /// when the URI was created from an [`AbsolutePathBuf`] on the current host, including fallback
    /// URIs created by [`Self::from_abs_path`]. Foreign conventions are rejected rather than being
    /// projected onto a syntactically valid but unrelated host path.
    pub fn to_abs_path(&self) -> io::Result<AbsolutePathBuf> {
        if self.infer_path_convention() != Some(PathConvention::native()) {
            return Err(io::Error::new(
                io::ErrorKind::InvalidInput,
                PathUriParseError::InvalidFileUriPath {
                    path: self.to_string(),
                },
            ));
        }
        if let Some(path_bytes) = decode_bad_path_uri(&self.0) {
            #[cfg(unix)]
            let decoded_path = {
                use std::os::unix::ffi::OsStringExt;
                Some(std::path::PathBuf::from(std::ffi::OsString::from_vec(
                    path_bytes,
                )))
            };
            #[cfg(windows)]
            let decoded_path = {
                use std::os::windows::ffi::OsStringExt;
                path_bytes.len().is_multiple_of(2).then(|| {

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at codex-rs/utils/path-uri/src/lib.rs:503 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

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