URI authority error when opening WSL projects in PyCharm 2024.3.4

[EkSulfur]

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Relevant environment info

IDE: PyCharm 2024.3.4 (Professional Edition)
WSL: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
Host OS: Windows 11 23H2

Description

The plugin throws a java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URI has an authority component error when opening projects located in the WSL filesystem (\wsl$\Ubuntu...), but works normally with native Windows paths.

To reproduce

1. Set up a WSL 2 environment with Ubuntu 22.04

2. Create a project in WSL at ~/project

3. In PyCharm:
   File > Open > \wsl$\Ubuntu\home<user>\project

4. The Continue plugin initialization fails with:

Error handling message of type fileExists: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URI has an authority component

Log output

2025-03-09 16:42:18,505 [ 674021]   INFO - #c.i.w.i.i.j.s.JpsGlobalModelSynchronizerImpl - Saving global entities com.intellij.platform.workspace.jps.entities.SdkEntity to files
2025-03-09 16:42:18,508 [ 674024]   INFO - #c.i.w.i.i.j.s.JpsGlobalModelSynchronizerImpl - Saving global entities com.intellij.platform.workspace.jps.entities.LibraryEntity to files
2025-03-09 16:42:18,539 [ 674055]   INFO - STDOUT - Error writing to Continue core: java.io.IOException: Stream closed
2025-03-09 16:42:18,540 [ 674056]   INFO - STDOUT - Error writing to Continue core: java.io.IOException: Stream closed
2025-03-09 16:42:18,983 [ 674499]   INFO - #c.i.e.wsl - WSL mount root for MS_Ubuntu-22.04 is /mnt/ (done in 136 ms)