[HBASE-22313] Add a method to FsDelegationToken to accept token kind

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0-alpha-1, 1.5.0, 2.3.0
• Component/s: security
• Assignee: Venkatesh Sridharan
• Reporter: Venkatesh Sridharan
• Created: 25/Apr/19 15:33
• Updated: 29/Jul/19 19:33
• Resolved: 29/Jul/19 09:57

Description

The acquireDelegationToken method [1] defaults to checking for delegation token of kind "HDFS_DELEGATION_TOKEN" before fetching it from the FileSystem. It would be helpful to have a method that accepts the token kind and fetches delegation token from UserProvider for that token kind.

[1] - https://github.com/apache/hbase/blob/rel/2.1.4/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/security/token/FsDelegationToken.java#L67 

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #199