[HADOOP-9310] {FileSystem,FileContext}.getFileBlockLocations() are incompletely and incorrectly specified

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: fs
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Steve Loughran
• Created: 15/Feb/13 13:49
• Updated: 15/Feb/13 16:11

Description

The javadocs of the getFileBlockLocations() methods in FileSystem and FileContext incorrectly specify the result when a nonexistent region is passed in (it's an empty array, not null), and nowhere is the response to a call of the method against a directory defined.