URISyntaxException when trying to create Writer for a path that includes a colon

URISyntaxException is thrown upon trying the following code. Note that if the path doesn't include a colon ':' everything is OK.

OrcFile.createWriter(
     new Path("/tmp/test-2018-03-05T16:15:00-153c036e-2241-49d0-a100-5291c5c09311.orc"),
     OrcFile
      .writerOptions(new Configuration())
      .setSchema(schema)
      .stripeSize(100000)
      .bufferSize(10000))

The stacktrace is:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: java.net.URISyntaxException: Relative path in absolute URI: .test-2018-03-05T16:15:00-96b3e05f-1aad-4235-9049-ac436f1837f7.orc.crc
    at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.initialize(Path.java:206)
    at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.<init>(Path.java:172)
    at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.<init>(Path.java:94)
    at org.apache.hadoop.fs.ChecksumFileSystem.getChecksumFile(ChecksumFileSystem.java:88)
    at org.apache.hadoop.fs.ChecksumFileSystem$ChecksumFSOutputSummer.<init>(ChecksumFileSystem.java:390)
    at org.apache.hadoop.fs.ChecksumFileSystem.create(ChecksumFileSystem.java:449)
    at org.apache.hadoop.fs.ChecksumFileSystem.create(ChecksumFileSystem.java:428)
    at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.create(FileSystem.java:908)
    at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.create(FileSystem.java:889)
    at org.apache.orc.impl.PhysicalFsWriter.<init>(PhysicalFsWriter.java:91)
    at org.apache.orc.impl.WriterImpl.<init>(WriterImpl.java:184)
    at org.apache.orc.OrcFile.createWriter(OrcFile.java:685)
   ...
Caused by: java.net.URISyntaxException: Relative path in absolute URI: .test-2018-03-05T16:15:00-96b3e05f-1aad-4235-9049-ac436f1837f7.orc.crc
    at java.net.URI.checkPath(URI.java:1823)
    at java.net.URI.<init>(URI.java:745)
    at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.initialize(Path.java:203)
    ...