diff --git a/quickwit/quickwit-cli/tests/cli.rs b/quickwit/quickwit-cli/tests/cli.rs
index 15c4ff3d8be..27b9ecc7a3a 100644
--- a/quickwit/quickwit-cli/tests/cli.rs
+++ b/quickwit/quickwit-cli/tests/cli.rs
@@ -22,11 +22,10 @@
 mod helpers;
 
 use std::path::Path;
-use std::str::FromStr;
 
 use anyhow::Result;
 use clap::error::ErrorKind;
-use helpers::{TestEnv, TestStorageType};
+use helpers::{uri_from_path, TestEnv, TestStorageType};
 use quickwit_cli::checklist::ChecklistError;
 use quickwit_cli::cli::build_cli;
 use quickwit_cli::index::{
@@ -258,15 +257,17 @@ async fn test_ingest_docs_cli() {
 
     // Ensure cache directory is empty.
     let cache_directory_path = get_cache_directory_path(&test_env.data_dir_path);
-    let data_dir_uri = Uri::from_str(test_env.data_dir_path.to_str().unwrap()).unwrap();
-
     assert!(cache_directory_path.read_dir().unwrap().next().is_none());
 
+    let does_not_exit_uri = uri_from_path(&test_env.data_dir_path)
+        .join("file-does-not-exist.json")
+        .unwrap();
+
     // Ingest a non-existing file should fail.
     let args = LocalIngestDocsArgs {
         config_uri: test_env.resource_files.config,
         index_id: test_env.index_id,
-        input_path_opt: Some(data_dir_uri.join("file-does-not-exist.json").unwrap()),
+        input_path_opt: Some(does_not_exit_uri),
         input_format: SourceInputFormat::Json,
         overwrite: false,
         clear_cache: true,
diff --git a/quickwit/quickwit-cli/tests/helpers.rs b/quickwit/quickwit-cli/tests/helpers.rs
index a3e18bc847a..67839f7368b 100644
--- a/quickwit/quickwit-cli/tests/helpers.rs
+++ b/quickwit/quickwit-cli/tests/helpers.rs
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 // along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
 use std::fs;
-use std::path::PathBuf;
+use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
 use std::str::FromStr;
 use std::sync::Arc;
 
@@ -191,8 +191,8 @@ pub enum TestStorageType {
     LocalFileSystem,
 }
 
-fn uri_from_path(path: PathBuf) -> Uri {
-    Uri::from_str(&format!("file://{}", path.display())).unwrap()
+pub fn uri_from_path(path: &Path) -> Uri {
+    Uri::from_str(path.to_str().unwrap()).unwrap()
 }
 
 /// Creates all necessary artifacts in a test environment.
@@ -264,12 +264,12 @@ pub async fn create_test_env(
         .context("failed to parse cluster endpoint")?;
 
     let resource_files = TestResourceFiles {
-        config: uri_from_path(node_config_path),
-        index_config: uri_from_path(index_config_path),
-        index_config_without_uri: uri_from_path(index_config_without_uri_path),
-        index_config_with_retention: uri_from_path(index_config_with_retention_path),
-        log_docs: uri_from_path(log_docs_path),
-        wikipedia_docs: uri_from_path(wikipedia_docs_path),
+        config: uri_from_path(&node_config_path),
+        index_config: uri_from_path(&index_config_path),
+        index_config_without_uri: uri_from_path(&index_config_without_uri_path),
+        index_config_with_retention: uri_from_path(&index_config_with_retention_path),
+        log_docs: uri_from_path(&log_docs_path),
+        wikipedia_docs: uri_from_path(&wikipedia_docs_path),
     };
 
     Ok(TestEnv {
diff --git a/quickwit/quickwit-common/src/fs.rs b/quickwit/quickwit-common/src/fs.rs
index adcb432e1b1..1aaa43d8286 100644
--- a/quickwit/quickwit-common/src/fs.rs
+++ b/quickwit/quickwit-common/src/fs.rs
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ pub async fn empty_dir<P: AsRef<Path>>(path: P) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
     Ok(())
 }
 
-/// Helper function to get the cache path.
+/// Helper function to get the indexer split cache path.
 pub fn get_cache_directory_path(data_dir_path: &Path) -> PathBuf {
     data_dir_path.join("indexer-split-cache").join("splits")
 }
diff --git a/quickwit/quickwit-config/src/source_config/mod.rs b/quickwit/quickwit-config/src/source_config/mod.rs
index 04eb90ec8a1..de9258a113c 100644
--- a/quickwit/quickwit-config/src/source_config/mod.rs
+++ b/quickwit/quickwit-config/src/source_config/mod.rs
@@ -20,10 +20,8 @@
 pub(crate) mod serialize;
 
 use std::num::NonZeroUsize;
-use std::path::Path;
 use std::str::FromStr;
 
-use anyhow::Context;
 use bytes::Bytes;
 use quickwit_common::is_false;
 use quickwit_common::uri::Uri;
@@ -241,14 +239,6 @@ impl SourceParams {
         FileSourceParams::from_str(filepath.as_ref()).map(Self::File)
     }
 
-    pub fn file_from_path<P: AsRef<Path>>(filepath: P) -> anyhow::Result<Self> {
-        let path_str = filepath
-            .as_ref()
-            .to_str()
-            .context("failed to convert path to string")?;
-        Self::file_from_str(path_str)
-    }
-
     pub fn stdin() -> Self {
         Self::File(FileSourceParams { filepath: None })
     }