The script bfabric_setResourceStatus_available.py and other uses of…

… `report_resource`, correctly search files which

  have a relative path starting with `/` as in the case of the legacy wrapper creator.

docs/changelog.md

@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ Versioning currently follows `X.Y.Z` where
 
 - The submitter ensures that workunits always get set to `processing`.
 
+### Fixed
+
+- The script `bfabric_setResourceStatus_available.py` and other uses of `report_resource`, correctly search files which
+    have a relative path starting with `/` as in the case of the legacy wrapper creator.
+
 ## \[1.13.11\] - 2024-12-13
 
 ### Fixed

src/bfabric_scripts/feeder/report.py

@@ -9,6 +9,14 @@
 from bfabric_scripts.feeder.file_attributes import get_file_attributes
 
 
+def _make_relative(path: str) -> str:
+    # TODO this is a hack which is necessary due to behavior of the legacy wrapper_creator, hopefully no
+    #      other code uses leading slashes to indicate relative paths but this will be seen later when refactoring this
+    #      away.
+    # replaces any number of leading slashes with an empty string
+    return path.lstrip("/")
+
+
 def report_resource(client: Bfabric, resource_id: int) -> ResultContainer:
     """Saves the provided resource's checksum, file size and available state."""
     resource = Resource.find(id=resource_id, client=client)
@@ -19,7 +27,8 @@ def report_resource(client: Bfabric, resource_id: int) -> ResultContainer:
         logger.error("Resource does not have a storage")
         return ResultContainer([])
 
-    filename = Path(resource.storage["basepath"]) / resource["relativepath"]
+    relative_path = _make_relative(resource["relativepath"])
+    filename = Path(resource.storage["basepath"]) / relative_path
     logger.info("Testing file: {}", filename)
     if filename.is_file():
         checksum, _, filesize, _ = get_file_attributes(str(filename))