[HADOOP-8436] NPE In getLocalPathForWrite ( path, conf ) when the required context item is not configured

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0-alpha
• Fix Version/s: 2.8.0, 3.0.0-alpha1
• Component/s: fs
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Brahma Reddy Battula
• Reporter: Brahma Reddy Battula
• Created: 25/May/12 07:13
• Updated: 30/Aug/16 01:33
• Resolved: 25/Sep/12 11:11

Description

Call dirAllocator.getLocalPathForWrite ( path , conf );

without configuring "dfs.client.buffer.dir"..

java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.apache.hadoop.fs.LocalDirAllocator$AllocatorPerContext.confChanged(LocalDirAllocator.java:261)
	at org.apache.hadoop.fs.LocalDirAllocator$AllocatorPerContext.getLocalPathForWrite(LocalDirAllocator.java:365)
	at org.apache.hadoop.fs.LocalDirAllocator.getLocalPathForWrite(LocalDirAllocator.java:134)
	at org.apache.hadoop.fs.LocalDirAllocator.getLocalPathForWrite(LocalDirAllocator.java:113)

Issue Links

• is related to: HADOOP-12252 LocalDirAllocator should not throw NPE with empty string configuration.
• requires: HADOOP-8437 getLocalPathForWrite should throw IOException for invalid paths