Christopher Tubbs created HADOOP-12118: ------------------------------------------
Summary: Validate xml configuration files with XML Schema Key: HADOOP-12118 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-12118 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: Improvement Reporter: Christopher Tubbs I spent an embarrassingly long time today trying to figure out why the following wouldn't work. {code} <property> <key>fs.defaultFS</key> <value>hdfs://localhost:9000</value> </property> {code} I just kept getting an error about no authority for {{fs.defaultFS}}, with a value of {{file:///}}, which made no sense... because I knew it was there. The problem was that the {{core-site.xml}} was parsed entirely without any validation. This seems incorrect. The very least that could be done is a simple XML Schema validation against an XSD, before parsing. That way, users will get immediate failures on common typos and other problems in the xml configuration files. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)