[HADOOP-9343] Allow additional exceptions through the RPC layer

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.3-alpha
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.0-beta
• Target Version/s: 2.1.0-beta
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Siddharth Seth
• Reporter: Siddharth Seth
• Created: 28/Feb/13 02:05
• Updated: 27/Aug/13 22:06
• Resolved: 05/Mar/13 18:02

Description

The RPC layer currently only allows IOException, RuntimeException, InterruptedException and their derivatives - which limits exceptions declared by protocols.
Other exceptions end up at the client as an UndeclaredThrowableException wrapped in RemoteException.
Additional exception types should be allowed.

Issue Links

• is related to: YARN-142 [Umbrella] Cleanup YARN APIs w.r.t exceptions