[SPARK-50662][PYTHON][WINDOWS] Escape ampersands in command arguments on windows #49286
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What changes were proposed in this pull request?
Changing
java_gateway.py
and verious .cmd files so ampersands will be escaped using triple carets (^^^) on windows systemWhy are the changes needed?
On windows system, spark-submit is operated by running a chain .cmd files, this flow didn't handled ampersands (&) correctly so in each step, if the arguments that were passed to the next .cmd file/java contained an ampersand, the flags were truncated up to the location of the first ampersand
Does this PR introduce any user-facing change?
Yes
The previous behaviour couldn't handle configs with parameters, and the new one can
How was this patch tested?
This patch was tested on multiple windows machines across the company that work at
Was this patch authored or co-authored using generative AI tooling?
No