[HADOOP-3355] Configuration should accept decimal and hexadecimal values

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.18.0
• Component/s: conf
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Release Note: Added support for hexadecimal values in Configuration
• Assignee: Amareshwari Sriramadasu
• Reporter: Amareshwari Sriramadasu
• Created: 07/May/08 04:43
• Updated: 22/Aug/08 19:50
• Resolved: 14/May/08 13:19

Description

This issue is created after the discussions in HADOOP-2461.
To summarise, Configuration should also accept hexadecimal values such as 0x1000, in addition to decimal values. Octal representation is not supported, since it may confuse some users.