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Impossible to submit Google Dataflow job from Windows machine #18734
Description
Got exception when trying to submit Dataflow job from java application running on Windows machine.
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Location must be local or on Cloud Storage, got C:\Users\myuser\AppData\Local\Temp\dataflow-job341260414234234.json.
Here:
following check is performed: fileLocation.startsWith("/") || fileLocation.startsWith("gs://"),
which prohibits usage of any Windows-style file names.
Workaround is to provide explicit file location on GCS:
dataflowPipelineOptions.setDataflowJobFile("gs://mybucket/dataflowjob.pb");
Imported from Jira BEAM-4380. Original Jira may contain additional context.
Reported by: kardashov.
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Abacn commentedon Aug 10, 2026
--dataflowJobFile are old fasion way to submit Dataflow job. Nowadays it job graph is automatically generated and uploaded to gcs. However, this platform improvement sounds fine
singhmrinal02 commentedon Sep 16, 2026
Hi, I'd like to work on this issue as a first contribution to Apache . Could you please assign it to me?
Abacn commentedon Sep 16, 2026
Close this as no longer planned, see #18734 (comment)