def validate_full_path(cls, full_path, **kwargs):
        """Helper method to parse a full or partial path and
        return a full path as well as a dict containing path parts.

        Uses the following rules when processing the path:

            * If no domain, uses the current user's account domain
            * If no vault, uses the current user's personal vault.
            * If no path, uses '/' (vault root)

        Returns a tuple containing:

            * The validated full_path
            * A dictionary with the components:
                * domain: the domain of the vault
                * vault: the name of the vault, without domain
                * vault_full_path: domain:vault
                * path: the object path within the vault
                * parent_path: the parent path to the object
                * filename: the object's filename (if any)
                * full_path: the validated full path

        The following components may be overridden using kwargs:

            * vault
            * path

        Object paths (also known as "paths") must begin with a forward slash.

        The following path formats are supported:

            domain:vault:/path -> object "path" in the root of "domain:vault"
            domain:vault/path  -> object "path" in the root of "domain:vault"
            vault:/path        -> object "path" in the root of "vault"
            vault/path         -> object "path" in the root of "vault"
            ~/path             -> object "path" in the root of personal vault
            vault/             -> root of "vault"
            ~/                 -> root of your personal vault

        The following two formats are not supported:

            path               -> invalid/ambiguous path (exception)
            vault:path         -> invalid/ambiguous path (exception)
            vault:path/path    -> unsupported, interpreted as domain:vault/path

        """
        from solvebio.resource.vault import Vault

        _client = kwargs.pop('client', None) or cls._client or client

        if not full_path:
            raise Exception(
                'Invalid path: ',
                'Full path must be in one of the following formats: '
                '"vault:/path", "domain:vault:/path", or "~/path"')

        # Parse the vault's full_path, using overrides if any
        input_vault = kwargs.get('vault') or full_path
        try:
            vault_full_path, path_dict = \
                Vault.validate_full_path(input_vault, client=_client)
        except Exception as err:
            raise Exception('Could not determine vault from "{0}": {1}'
                            .format(input_vault, err))

        if kwargs.get('path'):
            # Allow override of the object_path.
            full_path = '{0}:/{1}'.format(vault_full_path, kwargs['path'])

        match = cls.PATH_RE.match(full_path)
        if match:
            object_path = match.groupdict()['path']
        else:
            raise Exception(
                'Cannot find a valid object path in "{0}". '
                'Full path must be in one of the following formats: '
                '"vault:/path", "domain:vault:/path", or "~/path"'
                .format(full_path))

        # Remove double slashes
        object_path = re.sub('//+', '/', object_path)
        if object_path != '/':
            # Remove trailing slash
            object_path = object_path.rstrip('/')

        path_dict['path'] = object_path
        # TODO: parent_path and filename
        full_path = '{domain}:{vault}:{path}'.format(**path_dict)
        path_dict['full_path'] = full_path
        return full_path, path_dict
Helper method to parse a full or partial path and
        return a full path as well as a dict containing path parts.

        Uses the following rules when processing the path:

            * If no domain, uses the current user's account domain
            * If no vault, uses the current user's personal vault.
            * If no path, uses '/' (vault root)

        Returns a tuple containing:

            * The validated full_path
            * A dictionary with the components:
                * domain: the domain of the vault
                * vault: the name of the vault, without domain
                * vault_full_path: domain:vault
                * path: the object path within the vault
                * parent_path: the parent path to the object
                * filename: the object's filename (if any)
                * full_path: the validated full path

        The following components may be overridden using kwargs:

            * vault
            * path

        Object paths (also known as "paths") must begin with a forward slash.

        The following path formats are supported:

            domain:vault:/path -> object "path" in the root of "domain:vault"
            domain:vault/path  -> object "path" in the root of "domain:vault"
            vault:/path        -> object "path" in the root of "vault"
            vault/path         -> object "path" in the root of "vault"
            ~/path             -> object "path" in the root of personal vault
            vault/             -> root of "vault"
            ~/                 -> root of your personal vault

        The following two formats are not supported:

            path               -> invalid/ambiguous path (exception)
            vault:path         -> invalid/ambiguous path (exception)
            vault:path/path    -> unsupported, interpreted as domain:vault/path