[HADOOP-12324] Better exception reporting in SaslPlainServer

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.8.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.8.0, 3.0.0-alpha1
• Component/s: security
• Target Version/s: 2.8.0
• Assignee: Mike Yoder
• Reporter: Mike Yoder
• Created: 14/Aug/15 23:22
• Updated: 30/Aug/16 01:24
• Resolved: 13/Sep/15 12:25

Description

This is a follow up from HADOOP-12318. The review comment from Steve Loughran:

-1. It's critical to use Exception.toString() and not .getMessage(), as some exceptions (NPE) don't have messages.

This is the promised follow-up Jira.

CC: Aaron Myers

Issue Links

• breaks: HADOOP-12407 Test failing: hadoop.ipc.TestSaslRPC