[HADOOP-3730] add new JobConf constructor that disables loading default configurations

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.19.0
• Component/s: conf

Environment

all

• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Release Note: Added a JobConf constructor that disables loading default configurations so as to take all default values from the JobTracker's configuration.
• Assignee: Alejandro Abdelnur
• Reporter: Alejandro Abdelnur
• Created: 09/Jul/08 17:32
• Updated: 26/Nov/13 21:06
• Resolved: 16/Jul/08 18:00

Description

Similar to the Configuration(boolean loadDefauls) , JobConf should have such constructor.

This would allow supporting default values on the JT side as the client would not submit its default values in the job.xml.

It would address HADOOP-3287

Issue Links

• relates to: HADOOP-3287 Being able to set default job configuration values on the jobtracker