Manually backports Windows changes from opensearch-project#2601 (open…

…search-project#2647)

* [Windows] Replaces `rm -rf` with `remove.js`
* [dev/build] Facilitates using zipped archives of node releases
* [div/build] Introduces Windows as a platform
* [dev/build] Corrects cleaning of platform specific build artifacts
* [dev/build] Enhances the cleanup of downloaded node binaries
* [opensearch-dashboards-plugin] Removes prohibition on installing plugins on Windows
* [@osd/utils] Adds a method to standardize path references across platforms
* [dev/build] Standardize paths in tests
* [@osd/telemetry-tools] Normalizes the collection paths
* [plugins/url-forwarding] Fixes the usage of `normalizePath` across node and browser
* [@osd/pm] Allows symlink created for tests without elevated privileges on Windows
* [@osd/opensearch] Allows usage of Windows snapshots in integration tests
* [@osd/opensearch] Employs absolute paths in tests
* [@osd/apm-config-loader] Employs absolute paths in tests
* [core/server] Employs absolute and posix references to paths
* [@osd/optimizer] Standardize paths in tests
* [@osd/tests] Employs absolute paths in tests
* [@osd/pm] Standardize paths in project trees
* [plugins/telemetry] Accommodates the inability of Windows to create unreadable files for testing
* [@osd/config-schema] Normalize paths in tests
* [@osd/plugin-helpers] Standardize paths in tests
* [@osd/plugin-generator] Standardize paths in tests
* [Windows] Update changelog

backport PR: opensearch-project#2601

Signed-off-by: Miki <miki@amazon.com>

packages/osd-utils/src/path/index.ts

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
  * under the License.
  */
 
-import { join } from 'path';
+import { join, normalize } from 'path';
 import { accessSync, constants } from 'fs';
 import { TypeOf, schema } from '@osd/config-schema';
 import { REPO_ROOT } from '@osd/cross-platform';
@@ -94,3 +94,27 @@ export const config = {
     data: schema.string({ defaultValue: () => getDataPath() }),
   }),
 };
+
+/**
+ * Get a standardized reference to a path
+ * @param {string} path - the path to standardize
+ * @param {boolean} [usePosix=true] - produce a posix reference
+ * @param {boolean} [escapedBackslashes=true] - on Windows, double-backslash the reference
+ * @internal
+ */
+export const standardize = (
+  path: string,
+  usePosix: boolean = true,
+  escapedBackslashes: boolean = true
+) => {
+  /* Force os-dependant separators
+   * path.posix.normalize doesn't convert backslashes to slashes on Windows so we manually force it afterwards
+   */
+  const normal = normalize(path);
+
+  // Filter out in-browser executions as well as non-windows ones
+  if (process?.platform !== 'win32') return normal;
+
+  if (usePosix) return normal.replace(/\\/g, '/');
+  return escapedBackslashes ? normal.replace(/\\/g, '\\\\') : normal;
+};