[HADOOP-14683] FileStatus.compareTo binary compatible issue

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.8.0, 2.8.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.9.0, 3.0.0-beta1, 2.8.2
• Target Version/s: 2.9.0, 3.0.0-beta1, 2.8.2
• Assignee: Akira Ajisaka
• Reporter: Sergey Shelukhin
• Created: 25/Jul/17 00:16
• Updated: 02/Aug/17 00:35
• Resolved: 02/Aug/17 00:33

Description

See HIVE-17133. Looks like the signature change is causing issues; according to jnp this is a public API.
Is it possible to add the old overload back (keeping the new one presumably) in a point release on 2.8? That way we can avoid creating yet another shim for this in Hive.

Issue Links

• is broken by: HADOOP-12209 Comparable type should be in FileStatus
• is related to: HIVE-17133 NoSuchMethodError in Hadoop FileStatus.compareTo