[HADOOP-4515] conf.getBoolean must be case insensitive

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.18.2
• Fix Version/s: 0.23.1
• Labels: newbie
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Sho Shimauchi
• Reporter: Abhijit Bagri
• Created: 24/Oct/08 11:44
• Updated: 05/Mar/12 02:49
• Resolved: 06/Jan/12 05:42

Description

Currently, if xx is set to "TRUE", conf.getBoolean("xx", false) would return false.

conf.getBoolean should do an equalsIgnoreCase() instead of equals()

I am marking the change as incompatible because it does change semantics as pointed by Steve in HADOOP-4416