[HADOOP-16749] Configuration parsing of CDATA values are blank

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.3.0, 2.9.3, 3.1.4, 3.2.2, 2.10.1
• Component/s: conf
• Target Version/s: 2.9.3
• Assignee: Daryn Sharp
• Reporter: Jonathan Turner Eagles
• Created: 05/Dec/19 14:46
• Updated: 10/Jan/20 16:55
• Resolved: 10/Jan/20 16:55

Description

When using CDATA. CDATA elements are skipped by the parser.

In fact someone on stack overflow was asking this same question a few months ago.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57829034/why-is-apache-hadoop-configuration-module-ignores-cdata

  <property>
    <name>test.cdata</name>
    <value>hello <![CDATA[world]]></value>
  </property>

conf.get("test.cdata") parses as 'hello ' instead of 'hello world'