Yu Li created HDFS-4720: --------------------------- Summary: Misleading warning message in WebhdfsFileSystem when trying to check whether path exist using webhdfs url Key: HDFS-4720 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4720 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: Bug Components: webhdfs Affects Versions: 1.1.2, 1.1.1 Reporter: Yu Li Assignee: Yu Li Priority: Minor
When we trying to check whether the target path exists in HDFS through webhdfs, if the given path to check doesn't exist, we will always observe warning message like: =========================================================== 13/04/21 04:38:01 WARN web.WebHdfsFileSystem: Original exception is org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException: user = biadmin, proxyUser = null, path = /testWebhdfs at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.web.JsonUtil.toRemoteException(JsonUtil.java:114) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.web.WebHdfsFileSystem.validateResponse(WebHdfsFileSystem.java:294) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.web.WebHdfsFileSystem.access$500(WebHdfsFileSystem.java:103) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.web.WebHdfsFileSystem$Runner.getResponse(WebHdfsFileSystem.java:552) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.web.WebHdfsFileSystem$Runner.run(WebHdfsFileSystem.java:473) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.web.WebHdfsFileSystem.run(WebHdfsFileSystem.java:404) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.web.WebHdfsFileSystem.getHdfsFileStatus(WebHdfsFileSystem.java:573) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.web.WebHdfsFileSystem.getFileStatus(WebHdfsFileSystem.java:584) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.exists(FileSystem.java:768) =========================================================== while actually FileNotFoundException should be expected when the operation is GETFILESTATUS and target path doesn't exist. The fact that RemoteException didn't include the real exception class(FileNotFoundException) in its toString method even make the message more misleading, since from the message user won't know what the warning is about -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira