[YARN-1211] AM's tracking URL should be a URL instead of a string

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.0-beta
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
• Created: 17/Sep/13 21:59
• Updated: 17/Sep/13 21:59

Description

As I commented on YARN-1157, the real underlying problem forcing us to handle nulls, empty strings, "N/A"s etc is that tracking URL is a string and not a URL. Too late to make incompatible changes, so we should deprecate the current stringly APIs.