Configuration doesn't pass empty string values to tasks
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Key: HADOOP-8056
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8056
Project: Hadoop Common
Issue Type: Bug
Components: conf
Affects Versions: 1.0.0, 0.20.2
Reporter: Luca Pireddu
If I assign an *empty string* as a value to a property in a JobConf 'job' while
I'm preparing it to run, the Configuration does store that value. I can
retrieve it later while in the same process and the value is maintained.
However, if then call JobClient.runJob(job), the Configuration that is received
by the Map and Reduce tasks doesn't contain the property, and calling
JobConf.get with that property name returns null (instead of an empty string).
Futher, if I inspect the job's configuration via Hadoop's web interface, the
property isn't present.
It seems as if whatever serialization mechanism that is used to transmit the
Configuration from the job client to the tasks discards properties with ""
value.
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