[HADOOP-11015] Http server/client utils to propagate and recreate Exceptions from server to client

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.6.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.6.0
• Target Version/s: 2.6.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Alejandro Abdelnur
• Reporter: Alejandro Abdelnur
• Created: 28/Aug/14 06:23
• Updated: 01/Dec/14 03:07
• Resolved: 04/Sep/14 16:17

Description

While doing HADOOP-10771, while discussing it with daryn, a suggested improvement was to propagate the server side exceptions to the client in the same way WebHDFS does it.

This JIRA is to provide a utility class to do the same and refactor HttpFS and KMS to use it.