[HADOOP-4262] message generated when the client exception has a null message is not useful

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.19.0, 0.20.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.20.0
• Component/s: ipc
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Steve Loughran
• Created: 24/Sep/08 13:02
• Updated: 29/Apr/10 08:06
• Resolved: 29/Sep/08 21:43

Description

This was created by HADOOP-3844; if the exception doesn't have a meaningful message, the output isn't that informative :
java.io.IOException: Call to localhost/127.0.0.1:8012 failed on local exception: null