bazel-cwd

Resolve paths in a Bazel-aware manner.

As described in https://bazel.build/docs/user-manual#running-executables, the bazel run command runs from the runfiles tree of the binary, not the location where bazel run was run from. This must be accounted for in order to resolve relative paths in a user-friendly manner.

Bazel does expose the "correct" path via an environment variable. This crates provides a helper trait BazelPath and an unbazelify function to resolve paths the way you'd probably expect. It has reasonable fallback behavior when passed an absolute path or when used from outside of bazel run.

use std::path::Path;
use bazel_cwd::BazelPath;

let path = Path::new("foo/bar");
let resolved_path = path.unbazelify().unwrap();
// resolved_path will be an absolute path, resolving the relative path against the directory
// `bazel run` was run in.

This is not an officially supported Google product.